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Poker Articles

If you want to keep up with all the strategy articles I've written, then look no further! Sort by topic, publication date, or alphabetical order. Some articles are available here in full. For others, check out the abstracts, and use the citations to obtain the articles in full.

Being Pot-Committed

American Poker Player Magazine, Jan/Feb 2007

“I knew that I was beaten, but I was pot-committed--I had to call.”

This is the lament of many a person who has left the casino broke. Most people will tell you that you are pot-committed when you’ve put so much money in a pot that calling off the remains of your stack is mandatory. While this may be the right idea, the wording used by most players is imprecise. After all, a fundamental concept of poker is that the money previously put into a pot by a player should have no bearing whatsoever on a decision to call or fold. A more proper definition of being pot-committed is, therefore, that you are pot-committed when the pot size offers such favorable odds with respect to your stack that you are forced to call all-in. Notice how, in this new definition, there is no mention of how much you have previously invested. In this more generalized notion of being pot-committed, all that matters is the total size of the pot relative to the amount needed to call.
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