Coloring up and the effects on an individual hand (question).

[9LIVES]

First, unless you just lost a lot of chips in the previous hand, you shouldn't be in a situation where you're in a position to make that decision.

Second, he's got you severely out-chipped, and could be raising you all in with any pair, any Ace, any King, any Queen, any Jack, and maybe even any ten. Even if he's the tightest player in the world, the blinds relative to his stack are very high, and he's feeling pressure too. I would love to hear how you "knew" that he had Ace rag.

That said, you would have gone all in (or should have, anyway) if you were first to act, so calling in this case is right (simply because there is no way to know where you stand, and the odds of you getting a better hand after the chip-up is relatively low.)

But to answer your original question, you're no better off waiting until the next hand in this case. Not to mention that as long as you had live cards, you were getting the right price to call anyway.