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GETTING AWAY WITH ALL IN

Imagine this scenario.  You’ve been playing your hand at poker when things start getting cold turkey.  You could see the increase in blinds and you look at your stack of chips slowly getting smaller by the hour.  You’re driven up the wall and you’re trying to think quickly on your feet what you could do stay in the hand.  So you try wizening up a bit and attempt to get pots here and there.  This should be a fair tactic given the condition that none of the other players on the table pick up a hand.  Still, you might opt to just wait it out until you get a good hand to have a go at it.  But what if none of those opportunities come?  Then you might want to try going all in with your chips and try and get lucky with that move.

When to Do All In

It is foolish to go all in just for the sake of trying it.  No poker player in his right mind will want to do this for no good reason at all.  Even if we’re talking about going all in because of your dwindling stack, you still want to be clever and choose which round to go all in.  Generally, I would go all in when the big blind is roughly a quarter or even one-seventh of my chips.  Had it been higher than that I could delay going all in and just wait for a good hand.  But since things are not that way, I can go pick up a hand and see if it’s any good to make a call.  If this hand doesn’t turn out to be any good, then going all in might just do the trick.

Playing All In

If I had a choice, I would want to have only a few hands around when I go all in.  This way I can limit the cards I would need to put out.  When going all in, you force your opponents to decide on making a call or folding.  Most tight players will decide to fold while they assume you must have a good hand to back up your all in call.  Knowing your card is not as good as your opponents might think, you get a nice surprise when you see their cards with an ace in it or more decent hands than what you got at that point.  You’re on the brink of losing anyway so you’ll be surprised to find that going all in might just be the touch of luck you’re waiting for.