Poker Terms: ‘Pot Committed’
In poker online terminology, being ‘pot committed’ in a hand occurs when you have too much of your money already in the pot, or the odds you are getting on your money to stay in the hand are so high, making the possibility of folding not only incorrect, but a bad wager.
For instance, if you are playing in a online poker tournament where the blinds have increased so greatly that you are putting more than half of your stack in, the odds you are getting on putting the rest of your chips in the pot no matter what your hand is against any other make it wrong to fold.
Likewise, if you are playing in a poker cash game and you make a large raise or reraise which is the raised against by someone with just a little bit more money than you’ve already bet, even if you were raising with a marginal hand it would be correct to call for the odds you are getting on your money already invested vs. what you need to put in to continue.
There is a varying degree of what percentage of your poker online chips is enough to consider yourself pot committed, but by and large is pure math. Only in certain sorts of extraneous situationssuch as late in a tournament someone is already all in and your folding might severely increase the amount of money you can windoes the concept of ‘pot committed’ take on anything more than black or white.
