Have you ever been involved in a big cash game pot and wondered if there was anything you could do about the variance of the spot?
While the normal poker rules don’t offer any solutions, poker players have come up with quite a few ways to battle variance in key spots, with poker insurance being one of them.
Poker insurance is a gentleman’s deal done between players, and usually something we see in higher-stakes games.
On this page, we will take a deeper look at insurance in poker, explain how it works and when it makes sense, and explore some poker insurance alternatives such as running it twice and early cashout.