$4 NLHE 6-max: Bluffing with nothing

I am sitting at CO with Q2 os. I decide to open raise to 14c to steal. SB, who is a guy I’ve played with regularly, calls.

Flop’s K45. He checks. With a flop like that, I decide to c-bet 24 into the 30c pot. He flats.

The turn’s an 8. He checks again. Normally I slow down here. But since he’s played with me a lot and I think that he knows I rarely bluff, I decided to put 65c into the 78c pot, trying to represent AK. He calls again.

The river brings another 4. He checks for the third time. I put him on a mediocre king or a PP like 99 - JJ here.

The guy is a little bit of a calling station but from the time it took him to call the flop and turn he doesn’t seem confident he’s ahead. I don’t think he is slowplaying a monster.

The pot is 2.08. I have about $2 left. Fire a third barrel or give up?

This is a situation where I am rarely in as I generally don’t build pots without something. I think he knows that. On the other hand, he could call getting 2:1.

Any stats on villain?

blueskies said:

I am sitting at CO with Q2 os. I decide to open raise to 14c to steal. SB, who is a guy I’ve played with regularly, calls.

Q2o - way too weak for a Co open.

Flop’s K45. He checks. With a flop like that, I decide to c-bet 24 into the 30c pot. He flats.

I like the fact that you did c-bet because a bluff here is the only way you can win. The flop is dry etc and you can rep a King. That said, you are making the most of the bad situation you placed yourself in preflop. The raise size is too big. You are bluffing and would get just as many folds with a 1/2 pot bet

The turn’s an 8. He checks again. Normally I slow down here. But since he’s played with me a lot and I think that he knows I rarely bluff, I decided to put 65c into the 78c pot, trying to represent AK. He calls again.

Its 4NL players are not very good, if he has a weak king he calls if he has JJ he probably calls.

The river brings another 4. He checks for the third time. I put him on a mediocre king or a PP like 99 - JJ here.

The guy is a little bit of a calling station but from the time it took him to call the flop and turn he doesn’t seem confident he’s ahead. I don’t think he is slowplaying a monster.

Got to love this paragraph. The guy is a bit of a calling station so you open the Co with a hand that has little SD equity, and then decide to engage in a 3 street bluff. "The guy is a bit of a calling station" - read and reread that line.

The pot is 2.08. I have about $2 left. Fire a third barrel or give up?

This is a situation where I am rarely in as I generally don’t build pots without something. I think he knows that. On the other hand, he could call getting 2:1.

Forget 2:1 if he thinks his cards look pretty he calls, it sounds like he could be a bit of a calling station.

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Basically fold Q2o from the CO and life becomes much much simpler.

You need to pick better cards against calling stations. They call, which means you get to SD a lot so you need hands that do well at SD. The fact that this guy calls a lot and this hand does poorly at SD dosent change because you have your bluffing cap on.

Couldn't have said it better than Stu. Also, you said the guy knows that you rarely bluff, if this is true than he's not calling you with air and it's hard for most 4nl(or is it 2nl that youre playing) players to give up top pair so you should give up on the turn imo. Btw like Stu said, throw trash like Q2 away preflop, it's a horrible hand.

Yes you guys are right.

Thanks