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Bluffing
- When should you bluff?
When you think that the size of the pot, compared to the estimated probability that your opponent will fold, is large enough to make this online poker profitable (in terms of long run expectation).
- Why should you sometimes bluff if the odds don’t seem to justify it?
This makes it more difficult for your opponent to read your hands in the future.
- What is an example of a good fifth-street bluff?
You have only one opponent remaining, you are trying for a straight, and a third suited card appears on board. Against a player who is capable of folding, you may want to attempt a bluff.
- What is an example of an obvious fourth street bluff?
You are in late position and everyone has checked on both the flop and fourth street.
- If the top card on board pairs on fourth street, what does this mean if you bet the flop and weren’t raised?
- What is an example of a good bluffing opportunity on the flop?
In a short-handed pot, when no one has shown any strength before the flop, if you are in an early position and the flop comes either ace high or king high with no flush or straight draws, a bet should steal it enough to be profitable.
- What is a specific example?
Flops like K♦ 8♥ 3♠ are excellent candidates type of bluff.
- If all the cards are out and your hand can only beat a bluff, what does your decision to call depend on?
Your pot odds and on your judgment concerning the chance that your opponent is bluffing.
- What if your hand can beat some of the poker hands he would bet for value, as well as his bluffs.:
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