Saved by two lovely ladies

There are three ways of having all your chips go into the middle:

1. the all in
2. the call in
3. the fall in

The all in is when the action is on you and you decide to put all your chips in the middle. The call in is when the action is on you and someone who bet before you bet big enough to put you all in if you call, and you decide to call. The fall in is when you're in the small blind or the big blind, and are so short-stacked that the forced bet puts you all in. You want to avoid the fall in at all costs, since it removes all decision-making from you.

This is an excerpt from my March 18, 2014 post. It's impossible to avoid falling in occasionally. When you do, you're at the whim of the poker gods. Sometimes they smile down at you; that's what happened to me in the second tournament I played yesterday. The gods gave me pocket queens when I fell in, and the two lovely ladies held up :-)

style flavor buy_in  entry players entries paid place winnings

MTT   NLHE    44000   6000       9     416   99   139        0
MTT   NLHE    44000   6000       9     231   63    27   116000

delta: $16,000
2025 balance: $-161,000
2025 blue distance: $161,000
balance: $16,136,303
MTT NLHE ITM pct: 41.56 (1281 of 3082)