Bluffing - Tips and suggestions

Blue Fool · March 13th, 2008, 05:49 PM

I've always viewed bluffing in a similar way to telling a story, it needs to make sense and have a beginning, a middle and an end.

The start of a bluff is how you enter the pot preflop and what range of hands your opponent will asign to that action. The middle is your actions in relation to the texture of the board. The end is the size of you're final bet.

If all three parts fit perfectly together it will make sense and you will be betting the hand as if you held what you are trying to represent.

... All you have to do is make sure that you pick an opponent who is good enough to read this too and not just think "Oh my AQ is soooooooo pretty

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gtycoon · March 16th, 2008, 03:53 PM

Here's an example of bluffing a noob. I raised with a poor hand because I raise allot pre and then continuation bet. He made a post oak bluff like I mentioned earlier in this thread, and I reraised him with nothing on river enough to not give him pot odds to call with his pair of 7's ( I think thats what he had).

Edit by Good Karma Kid: I inserted a graphical representation of the hand from our Hand Histrory Partner. The site is still in beta, but is going to be awesome

PREFLOP Hero is button with

Hero raises $0.75 to $1, SB calls $0.90, BB folds

FLOP [

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SB checks, Hero checks

TURN [

] [

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SB checks, Hero bets $2, SB calls $2

RIVER [

] [

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SB bets $0.50, Hero raises $3.50 to $4, SB folds

RESULT
Hero collected $6.95 from pot

PokerDawg · March 16th, 2008, 07:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gtycoon

Here's an example of bluffing a noob. I raised with a poor hand because I raise allot pre and then continuation bet. He made a post oak bluff like I mentioned earlier in this thread, and I reraised him with nothing on river enough to not give him pot odds to call with his pair of 7's ( I think thats what he had).

PREFLOP Hero is button with

Hero raises $0.75 to $1, SB calls $0.90, BB folds

FLOP [

]
SB checks, Hero checks

TURN [

] [

]
SB checks, Hero bets $2, SB calls $2

RIVER [

] [

]
SB bets $0.50, Hero raises $3.50 to $4, SB folds

RESULT
Hero collected $6.95 from pot

I'm not sure if he had sevens based on the check after the flop and a call on the turn.

The strange thing is he just called $2 on the turn, but only bets $0.50 on the river.

GoodKarmaKid · March 17th, 2008, 01:20 PM

I hate reading hand histories

. At least the text style. One of our partners is working on an incredible hand history tool with a graphical representation.

I took the time to convert the hand history above to the graphics version to give you a sneak peak at the feature. Its going to be cool

Jason

kickboy · March 17th, 2008, 01:53 PM

you want a good low stakes bluffing tip -----DON'T

PocketRockets · March 17th, 2008, 03:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GoodKarmaKid

I hate reading hand histories

. At least the text style. One of our parnters is working on an incredible hand history tool with a graphical representation.

I took the time to convert the hand history above to the graphics version to give you a sneek peak at the feature. Its going to be cool

Jason

That is going to be a cool feature. I hate the text hand history myself. The graphics will make it a lot easier to read.

Quote:

Originally Posted by kickboy

you want a good low stakes bluffing tip -----DON'T

Low stakes bluffs are about as tough as bluffing in a freeroll early on.

spidy2222 · March 26th, 2008, 06:31 AM

well, 2 tips from me:

1. try bluff all the time in the table, only once in a while you say the truth or

2. try be honest the entire time, only once in a while bluff

> try listen how opponents talk, it might review if they are bluffing sometime

sweetestkate · March 29th, 2008, 03:58 PM

When you feel someone might have made a good hand it can be good to bluff.

If players have seen you bluffing recently, they will remember it. If you try to bluff again too soon then someone is likely to call you.

You should Bluff if you are in a pot with a player that is looking for a reason to fold.

Pay attention to other players, get to know how they play and remember each ones body language and personality.

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