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"Splitting" the Turn & River?

GlenelgGlenelg
edited July 2011 in Poker Chat

Watched a bit of Aussie millions last night and  Bennyamine & Smith were all-in after the flop for about 250K.  Can't recall the hands as not important but Smith said something like "split the turn river?" and Benyamine agreed.  The dealer dealt a turn & river and then another turn & river! Neither of which hands were any good to Smith.
Anyway, was kinda bleary eyed so may not have explained this very well but could someone explain what they were doing? I assume this is not very common?  I've watched a LOT of poker on TV and never came across it before.  Is it a new thing?
TIA
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  • unknown_usernameunknown_username
    edited June 2011
    yeah its been going for maybe the past few years. maybe longer.

    its called 'running it twice' . 

    the main reason for it is when they get 1000s or 100,000s in on the flop or turn and they are racing then this is a bit fairer and flattens variance a bit.

    it mainly happens in higher 'nosebleed stakes' games.
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  • NoseyBonkNoseyBonk
    edited June 2011
    I saw one game about a week ago (can't remember which show as I watch loads) but they ran it FOUR times!
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  • delaney09delaney09
    edited June 2011
    nosey did the hand involve helmuth ? if so that was the PokerS**Rs big game

    running it twice or how every many times is very common in nosebleed cash games as obviously theres a lot of money on the line R.I.T is most commonly done on online omaha on that very bad site that got their license taken away yesterday most times the pots result in split pots though it mainly just reduces variance in hands and bad beats but the odd occasion running it twice can help you in no way what so ever
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  • -Typhoon--Typhoon-
    edited June 2011
    Never seen this happen on the uk shows, but seems to happen a lot on the big cash games in the US shows, such as late night poker or FT.

    Seems odd, that anyone would want to run it again, spesh if your the one in front. Possibly, just another variation to the game.
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  • NoseyBonkNoseyBonk
    edited June 2011
    In Response to Re: "Splitting" the Turn & River?:
    nosey did the hand involve helmuth ? if so that was the PokerS**Rs big game
    Posted by delaney09
    You're absolutely right. I now remember I saw it after someone posted up the link on here. What a brilliant hand that was :) haha
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  • bandinibandini
    edited June 2011
    In Response to Re: "Splitting" the Turn & River?:
    I saw one game about a week ago (can't remember which show as I watch loads) but they ran it FOUR times!
    Posted by NoseyBonk
    Saw it too, can't remember the show or cards involved but it was Helmuth against some amateur that had won a buy-in to a big cash game. Helmuth was miles in front but agreed to run it 4 times to give the guy a chance. The amateur won it 2nd time, 3rd time and 4th time, lol. Think it was actually a link put up on here when I think about it.
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  • GlenelgGlenelg
    edited July 2011
    In Response to Re: "Splitting" the Turn & River?:
    In Response to Re: "Splitting" the Turn & River? : Saw it too, can't remember the show or cards involved but it was Helmuth against some amateur that had won a buy-in to a big cash game. Helmuth was miles in front but agreed to run it 4 times to give the guy a chance. The amateur won it 2nd time, 3rd time and 4th time, lol. Think it was actually a link put up on here when I think about it.
    Posted by bandini
    Thanks to all above BUT I was kinda hoping someone would explain how it works? e.g. if it's all in do they split the pot for the first turn and river?

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  • AMYBRAMYBR
    edited July 2011
    Pretty standard.  Run it as many times as you like, whole board part board.  Cash isnt tournament, active players can come to any agreement thay like.

    You can set run x times as default on most sites.

    Last couple of years??  Always been around.
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  • NoseyBonkNoseyBonk
    edited July 2011
    In Response to Re: "Splitting" the Turn & River?:
    In Response to Re: "Splitting" the Turn & River? : Thanks to all above BUT I was kinda hoping someone would explain how it works? e.g. if it's all in do they split the pot for the first turn and river?
    Posted by Glenelg
    Sorry. Yes the pot is divided by however many times they 'run it'. So if they run it twice the pot is divided in two. If Player A wins the first 'run' then they get half the pot. On the second 'run' if Player A wins again they get the full pot, but if Player B wins they get half too.

    Hope that helps :)
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  • delaney09delaney09
    edited July 2011
    In Response to Re: "Splitting" the Turn & River?:
    In Response to Re: "Splitting" the Turn & River? : Saw it too, can't remember the show or cards involved but it was Helmuth against some amateur that had won a buy-in to a big cash game. Helmuth was miles in front but agreed to run it 4 times to give the guy a chance. The amateur won it 2nd time, 3rd time and 4th time, lol. Think it was actually a link put up on here when I think about it.
    Posted by bandini

    the amateur had KK helmuth had A9 99X flop iirc
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