Vcpoker.com – The All in
Category: Poker
www.vcpoker.com – This is the most powerful weapon in any poker players armoury, and can be the most lethal, for you, or for the person calling. Generally speaking I would ideally be happy if I went a whole tournament without having to make this move, because it often means that all your chips are on the line, but the powerful effect it has cannot be underestimated.
We should firstly consider the fact that such a move takes all options of playing back at you and reraising, away from your opponent. Having said this, the moment you make that bet, you also take all the options away from yourself too. If an opponent quickly calls your all in and turns over pocket Aces, it’s too late for you to do anything about it, other than to get lucky. Smaller raises and reraises always have the added bonus of leaving you the option to get away from the hand, and often give you a lot of information about what your opponet has. For this reason, I would normally say to use the all in bet rarely, but sometimes your situation means that you don’t have a lot of choice.
When you become short stacked in a tournament, you need to make raises that will have an impact upon your opponents, and this means commiting most, or all of your chip stack. For this reason, I try to never let myself get in a position where I would need to double up twice to get anywhere near the tournament average, you are better off gambling with a hand before your chips get that low.