You’re all in because of your own stupidity. You made a useless straight on the turn, because your opponent made the nut flush. You’ve only got one chance to find the one card in the deck that will save you…

You nail the nut flush on the turn, crushing your two opponents — but the river puts a straight flush on the board for an all-way split…

You commit the short stack with a pathetic nine-deuce and hey, you’ve got a way better 9. Then the other three deuces come out of nowhere…

If this scenario plays out, the small stack will only get 2:1 vs. aces, while the chip leader will only get 1:1 in a larger side pot vs. aces…

A big pocket pair can spell trouble during the very first hand of an ultra-low buyin play-chip event. But sometimes you’ll find yourself in exactly the right seat with exactly the right players…

You flop a monster and your opponent is a 100% raising station. You check to him and he overbets the pot. Do you think he’ll call an all-in?

It kept getting better for him at every point — until the river card…

…and you face a calling station who will pay a reasonable price to see the river with almost any two cards…

You’ve got pocket kings in the small blind and a brand-new player in the cutoff seat has just pushed all in with his first two cards. What would you do?

Let’s say you river the stone cold nuts. You’d love for just one of your opponents to call your all-in. What if two of them take the bait?