# pot committed (priced-in)

*Ordinarily means:* in poker, having put so much into the pot that folding is no longer the sound play

A thing whose own past actions put in so much that continuing is worth more than stopping: a real wall, because what it put in can be won.

- Computed level: L16 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: published  ·  Domain: agency

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [set](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-set.fix), [wall](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-wall.range-end), [past](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-past.temporal), [put](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-put.placement), [win](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-win.victory), [continue](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-continue.action), [value](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-value.worth), [stop](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-stop.action), [action](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-action.deed), [real](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-real.actual), [against](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-against.opposition), [reach](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-reach.action), [agency](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-agency.capacity)

**Through:** Each voluntary stake is small and reversible when made, but together they move the wall that used to permit stopping; because the stakes are still in play the wall is real, and continuing is the one action its own reach still favours.

**Novel properties:**
- a wall built from one's own increments
- an exit closed by price, not by impossibility
- commitment that is correct, not a bias

## Examples
- In no-limit hold'em, a player with only a few chips left behind after a large bet is called pot-committed: the pot odds make calling correct with most hands. *(games)*

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