[2NL] AQo, IP, vs short stack.

Yeah how much you personally have put into a pot is irrelevant.

How big the pot is compared to the call, that is what is important.

I think the term "pot committed" is misunderstood by a great number of amateurs. People think "well I've put x amount in so I'm not folding now". This is bad thought process.

This hand is a great example. First of all we can see we have to call x amount to win y amount, that tells us how much equity we need to make money. In this case we need around 23% or something, can't be bothered to be accurate, so we'll say 25% after rake needed to profit.

Thus, if we have 25% equity or more vs villain's range, then we're pot committed. If we have less, we're not pot committed.

You should be able to figure out that what is of curcuial importance now is villain's range, not our investment. All our investment has done is give us better pot odds at the river. That might be enough to committ us, but not always.

Villain needs to have AJo in his range for us to be pot committed here.