PStars to start Equity Cash Out during hands (1 Viewer)

At first, I was thinking the AI Cash Outut would mean less 'P* is rigged, bruh" comments...

But...

If you choose to resume the hand, but your opponent decides to cash out, the hand plays out as usual except they play the remainder of the hand against PokerStars, with PokerStars keeping the money if they win.

means such comments are just gonna get worse.
 
Dang that’s clever. Selling insurance! Hard to beat that rake tho. They will make boatloads on this and some people will love it.
 
To me it is a feature and a fantastic one at that.

On a separate topic. Would transfers on Pstars be a good alternative for chip purchase to Paypal ?
You do realize this is a 1% uncapped rake at best? At worst (when one player cashes out and the other doesn't) PStars takes a giant chunk of the pot.

It's like a prisoner's dilemma except a third party wins (a little most of the time and wins HUGE a small % of the time).
 
Well, P* also loses some of them time...

You and I are AIPF and I am a 70% favorite... You cash out and PP returns your 30% equity... I play it out and hold and I get 100% of the pot (after rake).
 
You do realize this is a 1% uncapped rake at best? At worst (when one player cashes out and the other doesn't) PStars takes a giant chunk of the pot.

It's like a prisoner's dilemma except a third party wins (a little most of the time and wins HUGE a small % of the time).

Sure I understand how it works. It is never a bad thing to have options. PokerStars exists to make a profit. That part doesn't bother me.

Maybe it is just the way I play but I can get myself in sticky spots where I have way too much money in the middle when I didn't intend to. Having the option to quit the hand and get paid out with existing equity is grrrreat.

But hey I am a degen casual gambler so maybe I am just the sucker they are aiming for.
 
Well, P* also loses some of them time...

You and I are AIPF and I am a 70% favorite... You cash out and PP returns your 30% equity... I play it out and hold and I get 100% of the pot (after rake).
Yes, but that is where the 1% uncapped fee and the fact that they don't pay out your chop equity come into play.
 
Insurance at a gambling table is always a house win. However, for some people it is money well spent. Specifically, the kind of people that mentally lose it when They are 51% to win and lose. For those people the tradeoff is avoiding a great injustice And worth the high cost
 
Insurance at a gambling table is not insurance, as it does not make you whole in the event of an occurrence (variance). It is just another gambool...usually a smaller gambool when the stakes are too high for comfort.

I have insurance on my house. If it burns down, insurance pays out.

I can't walk in to a casino, pay a small fee, and collect my money back in the event of a bad beat....
 
So some observations: if you can get in a multi-way pot, you can cash out your equity, even minus the vig, and still make a profit with zero risk.

Also, you gotta do quick math. I was a 7.7% favorite to win the pot, so P* offered me 11,000. I played it out and lost the main pot, but I won the side pot over a guy I had dominated and cashed out $13,000. I still lost money on the hand, but the percentages for the split is based on the main pot only. Calculate your own percentages for any side pots you're in.
 

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