How do I enable All-in Cash Out on PokerStars?

Clients of poker rooms have come a long way: from simple and unpretentious applications of the early 2000s to modern applications with a huge number of settings. Choosing a layout, cardbacks, and disabling chat improved comfort, but did not affect gameplay. Favorite location, auto-buy and bet profiles have already made multi-tabling much easier and made the game more profitable. But all-in insurance directly affects the results of the hand. Let's talk about it.

What is All-in Cash Out?

All-in Cash Out is an option in the PokerStars client that allows you to take your part of the pot according to equity when playing for the stack. You can use it on any street except the river. PokerStars offers to insure itself against variance for a 1% commission on the player's stake in the pot. The size of the pot that the player will receive when using the All-in Cash Out is determined by PS based on the probability of his hand winning.

Example. You sit at a NL500 table and call your opponent all-in preflop. You have pocket QQ and your opponent has JJ. The pot amount is $ 1,000. The poker calculator gives us 80.77% to win. That is, with insurance, we are guaranteed to receive $799.62. This is exactly how much is obtained in the calculations: (80.77 x 1000) - (8.08).

We will remove the probability of a tie from the calculations due to its insignificance

How it looks like in practice. The option with insurance becomes available only in a situation when the players announced all-in and opened their cards. The system then calculates the odds of each hand winning. Players have a button in the lower right corner of the table. It offers to end the hand ahead of schedule and take the bank's share. If the player has refused the All-in Cash Out, then the hand continues as usual for him. Even if his opponent used insurance.

How do I enable all-in insurance on PokerStars?

It's easy to enable All-in Cash Out:

1. In the Pokerstars client click on "Settings".

2. Select "All-in Cash Out" in the "Gameplay" tab.

3. Enable insurance by selecting "Enabled" and save the setting with "Apply Changes".

Now, during a gaming session, you will always have a chance to take a fraction of the pot and not be affected by variance rounds.

Is it profitable to use insurance at PokerStars?

From the point of view of mathematics, the answer is unequivocal - no, it is not profitable. You will pay much more rake over the course than with insurance disabled. And more rake is good only if your name is Daniel Negreanu. However, with All-in Cash Out, not everything is so simple, because in poker, in addition to mathematics, there is also psychology.

It is convenient to talk about an additional commission of 1% and a loss of 0.5 BB \ 100 in the upswing, when all the coins end in your favor, the draws successfully closes, and the aces do not lose. On the other hand, a protracted downstreak with constant losses can shift the paradigm and soften the views on winning a pot share by EV. And it is easier for unstable poker players to give up a small share of the bank instead of moving, than to fall into tilt and distribute tens of times more than the insurance cost.

How to improve the comfort of playing at PokerStars?

A huge number of settings in the Pokerstars client is a big plus in the eyes of users. But there is no automatic table placement on the screen, an advanced HUD and betting profiles. But there is in the assistant program for multi-tabling - StarsCaption. It is free with no time limits for cash tables up to NL10. In tournaments up to $ 3, the free version also works. We award bonus points for every purchase in the store. Our customers use them when purchasing other products and thereby reduce the cost.