Stack Committed

So I’ve been reading my new book – Professional No Limit Hold’em, Vol. I, and trying to apply the stack commitment principles outlined in the book. Based on their math, it seems like you’re pot committed a lot earlier than I had thought previously – I used to think if half your stack was in the pot, you’re committed, but it’s earlier than that. So anyway, long story short, I’ve basically been going all in constantly tonight, and it’s scaring the crap out of me.

Of course I’m down for the night. Cracked AA, KK, sets to straights, straights to flushes, flushes to higher flushes, but I’m paying off because I’m supposedly pot committed. In hands where I’m way ahead, I’m just paying rake because the guy catches up. For instance, I have KQ, I raise preflop, flop is KQQ. I check, guy bets into me, so I know I’m getting paid – figure he has AK or AQ. Turn is a K. River garbage, we’re all in, he has KJo for the one outer to tie. It was like that all night. In some cases I won some hands where I would have folded previously, but overall, I’m really frustrated. I know I got it in with the best of it for most of the night. I did make 2 bad calls where I had position but felt committed yet probably could have folded and saved myself 20 bucks – J high flush vs. A high flush, and broadway straight vs. rivered flush, but hey, I’m committed, right?. At least I picked up more UB points.

UB – $119.23 (11128.76 UPoints)
PS – $135.29

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