Punt

Also known as: Punting, Punted

Needlessly throwing away your stack with a bad play, often tilt-driven. "Punted it off."

To punt is to needlessly throw away your stack — or a big chunk of it — with a bad, unjustified play. The hallmark is that it's self-inflicted: not a cooler or a bad beat, but a spot where you handed the chips over through poor judgment.

Classic punts: stacking off light into an obvious nutted line, hero-calling a value-heavy range for your tournament life, or jamming a hopeless bluff into a player who never folds. "I punted my whole stack with second pair."

The root cause is often tilt — frustration after a downswing pushing you into reckless aggression to win it all back at once. It overlaps with spew, but punt usually means one big, decisive blunder (often all-in), whereas spew is the slow bleed of many smaller bad bets. Either way, the chips are gone for no good reason. The fix: recognise tilt, take a break, and stop trying to force action.