question: being committed to a pot

[sweet wicking action]

now, i'm sorry if this isn't the right forum to be asking this, but i've been playing a lot of one table tournaments lately, so i felt this was as good as any other...in reading through the various posts, i've come across the term 'pot-committed' a decent amount of times. i'm fairly new to the game. it confuses me. when is a person committed to a pot? how should i take that information into account when i'm playing? really, i'm looking for any thoughts at all on being committed, what it means, and why i need to know about it. not that i'm asking a lot. thanks in advance.

-j

[Stagemusic]

I will probably be wrong on this but I have always defined being "pot committed" as having more than 75% of the chips I started with in the pot at the point of decision. In other words if the blinds are 100/200 and I have 1200 if I call 2 raises or if I raise myself to where I have invested more than 800 in a hand I become "pot committed". To me it's the point where it makes more sense to continue on than to fold.