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Settle up a poker night without a single argument

Every home-game dispute traces back to the same moment: the game ends, and nobody's sure who bought in for what. The fix is a ledger kept during the game and a payout method that minimises transfers. Both take two minutes to learn.

The ledger: three columns, kept live

For each player, track total buy-in (every rebuy counts), and at the end, their final stack. Net = stack − buy-in:

Pay out with the fewest transfers

Don't let everyone pay everyone. Match the biggest loser to the biggest winner and repeat — four players who could owe each other six different IOUs collapse to two payments:

1. List winners (+) and losers (−) from the ledger.
2. Biggest loser pays the biggest winner until one of them hits zero.
3. Repeat with what's left. For N players you'll never need more than N−1 transfers.

Prevent the disputes before they exist

• Announce rebuys out loud and write them down before chips hit the felt.
• One banker. One person holds the cash and the ledger — not three phones with three versions.
• Photograph the ledger when the game ends, before stacks are broken down.
• Agree the rate up front (chips per dollar) and never change it mid-game.

Or let the table keep the books

When you host on Master Poker, this whole page happens automatically: every buy-in, top-up and cash-out is logged the moment it happens, the ledger is on-screen for the whole table (and always sums to zero — the engine enforces it), and when the game ends you get a shareable recap card with final standings and the minimal settle-up already computed. How your group actually squares money — or whether it's just bragging rights — stays entirely off-platform and entirely yours.