Pot committed
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This means that, unless you have a hand that rates to be ahead, you are getting pulled into putting more chips to the pot as an underdog. When you are pot committed, and your opponent puts you all-in, folding is a mistake, so you have to call. If you do not have a strong hand, you can plan your betting to avoid getting pot committed. As the pot size increases, you must consider pot commitment issues.
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When the effective stacks are deep, pot commitment arises principally in later streets. The third shows which hands pass this condition, meaning that they are mathematically pot committed to calling an all-in push from your opponent. The second designates the minimum equity that a hand needs to have against your opponent’s range to be committed to calling.
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The first column indicates the amount of your stack that you have already committed. The first table is against an opponent that you estimate will push all-in with a tight range (10%), and the second against an opponent pushing with a loose range (40%). To better understand when you become pot committed in preflop all-in heads-up situations, let’s examine the tables below. In most cases, if you commit a third of your stack or more, you are committed to a preflop all-in bet. When your stack is relatively short compared to the blinds, like in the later stages of no-limit Texas Holdem tournaments, pot commitment issues can easily arise before the flop. Still, you need to understand why and when pot commitment issues arise, to avoid being trapped and be able to use pot commitment to your benefit. This simple concept is often misunderstood or used to justify making questionable calls. This means that the pot odds he is getting are so high that he is priced in, given his hand and his opponent’s presumed range of hands, and it would be a mathematical error to fold. A player is pot committed in poker if the pot is so big that he is getting great pot odds so that he is obligated to call if someone puts him all-in.