Backing Off Bluffs – Knowing When To Fold
Bluffing in online poker can often feel like you are backing away from a fight if your opponent doesn’t seem to want to go away. Even though it’s against your natural instinct to back off, sometimes you just got to do it. A typical situation is when you are the first to enter a pot and decide to raise it up because you have some paint cards. The big blind calls you and the both of you see a ragged flop. Normally, he’s going to check to you, the aggressor in a hand.
Learn From The Pros – Bluffing
The dicsussion talks about what to bluff, why bluffing should only be done with the weakest hand, whether people bluff to often and more. Annie Duke makes a really good point about people who try to bluff with their body language by trying to give off weak signals, but those “fake” bodylanguage signales can be very different to the “real” subconcious signals.
Crazy Bluffing from Scotty Nguyen
This video shows Scotty Nguyen pulling off an incredible bluff against Humberto Brenes. He bet $12,000 with 3-8 offsuit. Brenes raises $40,000 over the top with A-10 offsuit. Most players surely would have to muck their hand in this situation, but after stating “This is going to be the greatest move I’ve ever made” he raises $100,000!
