pot-committed

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I believe they put heart and soul for relatively little pay and fame into an unspoken group project of maintaining a "Judeo-Christian", right-leaning, rigged-capitalist, American Exceptionalist stasis because to use a gambling metaphor they are pot-committed, as KIT explains.

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  • At that point, Y went all in and X (who now had bet more than half of his stack) thought he was pot-committed and had to call, so he did.
  • I believe they put heart and soul for relatively little pay and fame into an unspoken group project of maintaining a "Judeo-Christian", right-leaning, rigged-capitalist, American Exceptionalist stasis because to use a gambling metaphor they are pot-committed, as KIT explains. —  Editorials from Hell's leading daily newspaper
  • So even if the flop cards were somehow blank, he was absolutely pot-committed to this hand. —  Gambling911.com RSS News Feed
  • Merkow, who had no pair and no draw with, made the call as he was pot-committed. —  Poker News
 

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