How to use laravel Paginate and skip(1)

Hello.

I currently work on creating a site that draws forum posts out onto a separate page where i use them as blog entries. In order to make it work as i want, i first ->get() the newest post for the top, main, blog entry, and then i foreach the others underneath it with masonry style like this : www.hockeyforat.se/laravel

This means that i do have this set up:

$post = Post::whereNewTopic(true)
            ->whereHas('Topic', function($q){$q->whereForumId(13);})
            ->orderBy('pid', 'DESC')
            ->first();
    $vars['p'] = $post;

And this obviously is meant to drag out the newest post and put it on top, so that works great, but then comes the other part where i have to skip the first post (as it is already on the page per above code). I used this to do that:

$posts = Post::whereNewTopic(true)
        ->whereHas('Topic', function($q){$q->whereForumId(13);})
        ->orderBy('pid', 'DESC')
        ->skip(1)
        ->take(100000)
        ->get();
    $vars['posts'] = $posts;

And this worked supremely too. But when i wanted to paginate it, i had some issues.. For some reason my ->paginate(6) ignores the ->skip(1). Anyone knows how to get around this? Example is here again : www.hockeyforat.se/laravel and I'll also add a picture below. As you can see, without skipping the first, I will get the same post in a row due to the first one being drawn out with $post here above.

$posts = Post::whereNewTopic(true)
            ->whereHas('Topic', function($q){$q->whereForumId(13);})
            ->orderBy('pid', 'DESC')
            **->skip(1)**
            ->take(100000)
            **->paginate(6);**
    $vars['posts'] = $posts;

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Couldnt get the skip part to work with paginate as intended but it was solved by saying "Do not paginate whatever post id (pid) that is in $post.

$post = Post::whereNewTopic(true)
        ->whereHas('Topic', function($q){$q->whereForumId(13);})
        ->orderBy('pid', 'DESC')
        ->first();
$vars['p'] = $post;


$posts = Post::whereNewTopic(true)
            ->whereHas('Topic', function($q){$q->whereForumId(13);})
            ->where('pid', '<>', $post->pid)
            ->orderBy('pid', 'DESC')
            ->paginate(6);
$vars['posts'] = $posts;