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Originally Posted by iraisetoomuch
Often when discussing hands, people talk a Pot Commitment. Bad players will say “There’s so much money in the pot, and I’ve already put in 50%, 60%, 80% of my stack” so they feel pot committed.
I replied to this in another response but this deserves a separate comment.
Pot commitment has never been a feeling. If you should fold, you fold. If you should call, you call. People in this thread are creating a straw-man to tear down. You're doing that here by saying "pot commitment is what bad players do".
Miller is not writing a book about playing bad poker, minimizing EV, or anything like that.
Pot commitment is pure and simple about planning. Lots of threads people bring up some situation that they should never be in and ask "what do I do?". They NEVER want to hear the advice to "avoid that situation".
It's amazing to me the number of people that think poker is a one-street game where you just wake up miraculously on the river having not been awake previously in the hand.
Long story short: I don't understand the purpose of a thread that just exists to say: "Don't make -EV plays", without addressing any of the substance of the theory of pot-commitment.
There lots of times where you're pot-committed BECAUSE you can make a +EV call on the river. But importantly just because you make a +EV call on the river doesn't mean the EV of the entire hand was positive.