Run It Twice (RIT)

Also known as: RIT, run it twice, running it twice

An all-in agreement to deal the remaining board twice, each runout for half the pot, to reduce variance.

Run it twice (RIT) is a cash-game convention: when players are all-in with cards to come, they agree to deal the remaining community cards two separate times, each runout awarding half the pot. With one board left to come, you deal it, push half the pot, then deal a second board for the other half. The deck isn't reshuffled between runs — the second board is dealt from the remaining cards.

Crucially, running it twice does not change anyone's expected value. Each runout is an independent sample of the same equity, so your long-run share is identical to running it once. What it changes is variance: splitting the result across two boards narrows the distribution of outcomes for that single confrontation, making the all-in less swingy without altering its EV.

This is why deep-stacked cash players love it and why it's irrelevant to most tournaments (you can't split a single chip stack across two runs the same way). The favourite gives up nothing in EV by agreeing; refusing RIT to "gamble" is purely a variance preference, not an edge.