PokerStars on FanDuel has brought back the Run It Twice (RIT) feature to its cash game tables in the US and Canada, giving players another option when they get their chips in before all the community cards have been dealt.
The rollout took place on Monday, November 9, as first reported by Poker Industry PRO, with Run It Twice now available across all cash game tables on the platform. The feature is live in both US and Canada, including Alberta, where PokerStars recently launched its online poker room under the PokerStars on FanDuel branding.
The addition will be welcomed by players who were familiar with the feature from PokerStars’ previous North American platform. Run It Twice was available on the operator’s legacy software but disappeared following its move to Playtech’s iPoker network.
Its return restores a popular cash game option that has become common across major online poker rooms.
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How Run It Twice Works
Run It Twice gives players the option to deal the remaining community cards twice when they are all-in during a hand. It is designed to reduce variance by splitting the pot between two separate board runouts rather than leaving the entire outcome to a single result.
For example, imagine two players get all their chips into the middle before the river, with one holding pocket aces against an opponent’s pocket kings. Both players agree to run it twice.
Instead of dealing the remaining community cards once, the dealer completes the board twice. The original pot is then divided into two equal portions, with each runout determining the winner of one half.
If the player with pocket aces wins both runouts, they collect the entire pot. If each player wins one runout, they split the pot. And, if the player with pocket kings beats the odds and wins on both boards, the entire pot goes to them.
Importantly, both players must agree before the hand can be run twice. If either player declines, the hand continues as normal, with just one board determining the winner.
There is also no additional charge for using Run It Twice on PokerStars on FanDuel.
The operator describes the feature as a way to make all-in pots more attractive and fun, explaining that players involved in an all-in situation will be offered the option to run the remaining streets twice.
While running it twice does not change the mathematical odds or the expected value of a hand, it can help reduce the swings associated with all-in situations. A player who is ahead when the money goes in still has the same equity, but two runouts can make the final result less dependent on a single turn or river card.
A Popular Feature Across Online Poker
Run It Twice has been around in live poker for many years, particularly in high-stakes cash games. It also became known to a much wider audience through televised poker shows such as High Stakes Poker and Poker After Dark, where players regularly agreed to deal multiple boards in large pots.
The feature eventually made its way into online poker in April 2008, when Merge Gaming introduced it under the name Deal It Twice. Full Tilt Poker followed in 2009, while PokerStars added the option in 2012.
Today, almost every major online poker room offers some form of the feature. Some have even introduced variations. GGPoker, for example, allows players to select Deal It Thrice, giving them the option to run the remaining community cards three times instead of twice.
However, not every poker room adopted it at the same time. PartyPoker did not introduce Run It Twice until 2020, while the iPoker network began rolling it out in 2022, initially making it available to players on bet365 before extending it to other skins.
888 was also among the major poker operators that went without the feature for years. It finally introduced Run It Twice in April this year, making it available across all its markets.
With PokerStars on FanDuel now adding the option, BetRivers Poker and WSOP Online are among the few major US online poker rooms to offer it.
More Features on PokerStars on FanDuel
Run It Twice is not the only feature available on the PokerStars on FanDuel platform. Since moving to Playtech’s iPoker software, the operator has also introduced several tools aimed at giving cash game and tournament players more information while playing.
These include a tournament statistics HUD and estimated tournament duration, allowing players to get a better idea of how long an event is expected to last.
The iPoker platform also supports All-In Cashout, another feature designed to give players more control over the outcome of all-in situations. Unlike Run It Twice, which divides the pot across multiple board runouts, All-In Cashout allows a player to accept a cash payment based on their equity in the hand rather than wait for the remaining cards to be dealt.
The option generally comes with an additional fee and is already available on several major online poker platforms. However, All-In Cashout has yet to be introduced in the regulated US online poker market, including on PokerStars on FanDuel.
For now, the return of Run It Twice gives PokerStars on FanDuel cash game players a familiar option that had been missing since the platform’s move to iPoker. The feature is available across its US and Canadian markets, with no restrictions on particular stakes or cash game tables.
