two pair win.it is always beettr than one the one pair, (even if the communities pair is bigger, which I think is confusing you.) to play it out check what they would do to make their 5.player 1- 10,10,5,5,7player 2- 10,10,A,8,7the second pair beats the skeletonsnow heres a situation that would splitplayer 1-A,Kplayer 2-Q,3board- 3,4,4,9,9while player 2 technically has more pairs, you cant fit 3 pairs into a 5 card hand so it would be the 2 highest pairs and the remaing