Poker Room - Common features

All-in bets

All-In simply means "going in with everything".

This is a bet placed by a Player using all of his or her chips.

Players use the All-in bet when they have too few chips to call and they want to stay in the game or even if they have the right amount of chips but want to scare other Players by betting everything they have.

For example, a player who has $7 left on a table may enter with $7. If there is only one other Player left in the game at that time, the bidding for that game ends and the dealer deals the remaining cards quickly and selects a winner.

If there are at least three Players left in the game when one of them runs out of chips and goes All-in, a separate additional pot (called side-pot) is created after the next Player raises, for which only those who still have chips are playing. In some situations it is possible to create more pots if the chips are exhausted by different Players at different stages of the game.

When a Player has a share of a side pot, they can win it, even if they fail to win the main pot.