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Originally Posted by BDHarrison
Do the opposite of whatever your opponent prefers, unless they are a whale who you want to cater to. If someone wants to run it twice because they are afraid of variance, put them in high-variance spots of playing big pots running it once because they might not call a big all-in. If someone wants a chance to take down big pots, well, I guess you can't force them to run it twice, but if they give you the option, maybe too many pots that end up being an unsatisfying chop will put them on tilt.
There's no mathematical reason to run it twice, so look at the psychology of it.
I guess run it twice if you have poor tilt control when you lose a big pot, but maybe you should work on not tilting.
There is definitely mathematical reason to run it twice. As variance goes up, your risk of ruin goes up; therefore, if you can run it twice, your variance goes down, your risk of ruin goes down. In practice this doesn't amount to being able to play higher stakes exactly, but maybe you can sell less action and have more to yourself. This is all quantifiable and calculable within the Kelly Criterion.
Don't do the opposite of what your opponent wants. That's called 'being an Ahole for the sake of it'. Some of the reasons given itt are rather spurious, about wanting to run it once when favourite and twice when behind. Lolz. Just have a policy. Running it once is good for the player who has better tilt control. Running it twice is better for the fish, who gets to stay in the game longer, which, by extension, is better for the winning player, because then you get another chance to take his money, and you get to even out the variance too. Please don't pick and choose when to run it twice. Very unclassy. Leave that sort of behaviour to the big losers in the game. They can do what they like. If you're a winner, you should accomodate them, and you get to accomodate them while reducing your variance, that's a win-win.