you go onto kicker cards. say i had a pair of queens and a pair of fives, and u had the same hand as me, then we go to the next set in the hand/table. in this case, the pot would most likely be split, as the kickers wud be the same (kickers are cards you go down, which are in the players hands/table as to find out whos the pot will be). If we both had a pair of kings, one of which was in the table and one in each hand, and yt i had an ace, that ace kicker, even though it plays no part in a combination, wud be higher than ur kicker (next down) and hence the pot would be mine, hope i helped