![]() ![]() Plus, we might be on tilt- perhaps the player we are up against handed us a bad beat earlier in the situation or was forcing us to fold some good hands and by golly we don't want to fold this one! ![]() We know we are behind, we have "too good a hand to lay down" (and in fact, the only hand that is too good to lay down under any circumstances is the nuts), and we don't want to be patient and wait until we have a better situation to bet in. In fact, most of the time when we think or say that we are "pot committed", we are doing something else- rationalizing a gamble we want to make. Now, it seems to me that he may be able to extract some value from you on the turn and the river, simply because in that sort of a pot, as long as he keeps your pot odds high enough, you may want to call his relatively small bets, just on the off chance that he was bluffing or calling on a draw, or perhaps you will catch runner-runner to beat him.īut in practice, in the games we all play at, how many times does that really happen? In other words, how many times is it really the case that the odds of you sucking out or the player not having the hand that he obviously has justifies putting additional money into the pot and paying him off? Now the pot is $10,000 and you figure he has two pair, a straight, a flush, or a straight flush. The flop comes up 7d8d9d and a player who has called raises and re-raises with suited connectors in many hands in the past and always slow-plays his made hands and bets his draws checks to you and then flat-calls your $2,500 bet. You draw KhKs and through a bunch of raises and re-raises pre- flop, the pot is built up to over $5,000. Let's imagine a situation where you are playing an unlimited buy-in game where everyone has more than $10,000 in chips and the blinds are $10/$20. I suppose the theory behind this is that if there is enough money in the pot, even a player facing almost certain defeat might be justified in calling a bet based on the pot and implied odds.Īnd, of course, in theory, that might be true. I often hear a player making a stupid call at the live tables say, aloud, that he is or was "pot committed". Spenda’s 5 Biggest Leaks of a Losing NL Player – Leak 1Ī comment Outlaw made in a thread about the 3-bet pocket queens made me think about writing something about this.Beating 6 Max No Limit Holdem by Sauce123.Strategy (Part 1): The Study of Tactics in Poker How, Why and When to Double Barrel in No-Limit Hold’em. ![]()
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