You Don’t Have to Go ‘All In’ to Keep Friends

The ante is your only obligation

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In most poker games, there’s an ante — a required “buy-in” to play each hand. In Texas Hold ’em, it’s called a blind, and just two players of each hand have to cough it up. After the initial buy, what each player does — play, call, bid, or fold — is up to them. Going “all in” is never a requirement. One could easily just fold the…