When are you pot committed

Chugs

People always use the term, i felt pot committed.

Is there a guideline where with any two cards you're pot committed in Limit or No Limit.

Is there a point where the same is true for certain draws post flop.

How would you define being pot committed, and generally do you always want to keep yourself from being pot committed.


Chugs

ScottyZ

Saying that someone is pot committed simply means that the player has (or would soon have, depending on an opponent's action) an all-in decision where pot odds exceed the probable drawing odds.

The tricky part is figuring out your probable drawing odds (especially pre-flop) since this depends on what your opponents' hole cards are.

ScottyZ

wader

I think that a lot of people use the term "pot commited" when they are almost certain that they are beat, but they call anyways with the remainder of there chips. It's kind of an excuse for the call they made after they get schwacked. In tourneys and NL holdem I don't think there is such thing as being pot commited, if you know your beat or you need that 2 outer to win....lay it down.

Wader

Dave Scharf

Pot committed, to me, means that "Whatever hand I am putting my opponent on is such that I am forced to call for the remainder of my chips is he bets that much."


As an interesting tool, if you KNOW that your opponent understands the concept of being pot committed and he KNOWS that you KNOW... then you can often fold. For example, make a bluff and he raises you. He, of course, thinks you are pot committed. That means FOR SURE that he has "something." Fold.

This happened (I think) in my hand with Annie Duke in which I held Q-8s. I thought she was pot committed and I decided to move her all in with my big draw and cross my fingers. She decided to escape the hand instead indicating (now that I think about it) that she wasn't pot committed against the hand she gave me credit for.