How do you guess when your opponent bluffing?

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Pls share your tips!


watch your opponent, typically if he is bluffing and you are in the hand you most likely bet the flop. Watch his eyes directly after you bet. If he at any time looks down at his chips, as if to eyeball an amount, chances are his hand is strong. If instead he looks at you or fumbles around with his cards or anything but look at his chips, then he may be weak. Obviously a large bet on the river is an indication that his hand is weak if you picked up any other signs that was leading you to think he was chasing down a draw.. Just my opinion, Daniel Neg was the one who i heard first say this. If that is any validation.
 
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Another suggestion is to watch the opponents breathing. If they take small shallow breaths, You need to do some reconnaissance work before you can perfect the art of catching the breathing bluff. Study each opponent when they make a call. Watch how they breath and make a note of how they breath when they make a call, bet and are strong on the river. Regardless if they win, was there hand strong? If so how did they breath while waiting for the call/raise. Bank this information. Next, study them when they bluff and muck. Watch what they do when they raise someone all in and during that period while they wait for the call/fold.. how do they breath. Once you have seen how they react you will know what to do when faced with action toward your hand. One of the easiest tells to spot in poker is the holding in and forcing shallow breaths. If you notice your opponent tensing up and controlling his breathing, he is weak or bluffing/fearful of a call. of course this does not always work however body language and the art of studying behavior is the best way to spot a bluff and the only practical way to crack an opponent live IMO.

There is a video of Scott Siever where he bluffs and covers his mouth against Daniel Negraneu(spelling) when asked later why he covers his mouth he admits its to prevent opponents from monitoring his breathing habits.
 
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It is important to observe the other players closely. In a live game it is easier to recognize than a bluff in online poker. What matters is everything. The size of bets during the course, the player's position, how often a player is fighting for the bank. If I allow the stack I try to watch the opponent's card, even with a bad hand. Not because I think that I will win this hand. I want to know what hand the player. To predict his hand in the next hand. The ability to read an opponent is an important component buduyuschego success. I can say with 80% likely to guess the hand of friends for a game which is often observed. If the tournament is 2-3 the table during the game I'm watching the game on the big stack of tables. After all, most likely it is with them will have to play at the final table. The ability to uncover a bluff comes with experience. The main thing to be careful and not to be distracted during the game to a secondary cause. Of course you can not be 100% sure in reading the player. But in poker, you can not be 100% sure there is nothing.
 
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I once called an all in bluff of someone who was reading a book at the table. It just seemed so arrogant to me, like I'm so smart I can read a book and play poker at the same time. It annoyed me and I just thought he was bluffing so I called and won with a pair of 9's on a board that had overcards :) So if someone is reading at the table I think they are generally full of it. :) Call em!!
 
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I determine by structure of a board and by an unclear betsayzing more often
 
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Usually fish tend to bluff on turn and river when they missed the flop.
 
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Unless your opponent is really obvious, and I am referring to on-line poker, you usually must play or watch the hands they are in to see if they establish a pattern. Amazingly, one of the on-line tells is a player that doubles his bet every street. They don't even realize they are doing it. Also, I have noted a lot bet small on 3rd and 4th street, and if they make a small bet on the river, they have it. If they overbet the river, they are often bluffing, trying to scare you into folding. the above are not hard and fast rules, just observations I have made in the past.
 
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A very important thing is to also see when your opponent bluffing with nothing and when he bluffs a possible hand. It's kind of obvious but some people often show very differently these different bluffs.
 
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watch your opponent, typically if he is bluffing and you are in the hand you most likely bet the flop. Watch his eyes directly after you bet. If he at any time looks down at his chips, as if to eyeball an amount, chances are his hand is strong. If instead he looks at you or fumbles around with his cards or anything but look at his chips, then he may be weak. Obviously a large bet on the river is an indication that his hand is weak if you picked up any other signs that was leading you to think he was chasing down a draw.. Just my opinion, Daniel Neg was the one who i heard first say this. If that is any validation.

I have read this also, exactly if you bet on the flop and after this your opponent sharply look on his chips definetely he has strong combination.
 
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One questiones guys, wathing international or any other tournaments by TV or in Internet , I have noted that during the battle especially two opponents they are trying to start dialog with each other to extract information about the hand. What questiones are good to get know the power of the hand of your opponent?
 
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guessing what he could have, for example "You have A 7", or "telling" him what you have, can be some words witch can help you, to see his reaction with those information. Some times they chat like random stuff and not about hand, but my opinion about that is total non sens because everything in this world is subjective sens about all, "nobody is guilty until there is proof" i hope you understand me.
 
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We must look for the opponent has to learn throughout the game all the players and then it will be easy all ponyat.no often bluff opened on the river at the last rate when the opponent has places and you realize that this is not the final assembly rate that does not gather additionally from what usually do not give . Well, well , see for yourself play uchites.luchshe bluff not open not put chips in the pot if you are not confident in the strength of the hand
 
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It all depends on the level of the tournament, if a player bets fast or delaying a decision is one of the indicators of a bluff. Just rate transoms and so on. But online poker is very difficult to do, because the opponents are always different, and a lot of them. You should feel your game and game opponent.
 
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first there is no guess.
if you are play guessing game...it is better to quit finding another table to catch bluff.

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hand reading is based on history or recorded hand history
generally to say put player's hand into a set of range
and deduce the most possible one or ones ...after a series of action.

so bluff...it put your opponent's most hand range on a bluff range... it is bluffing.
 
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You must get used to analyse the other players. When you have a stronger hand and you bet more he will be more "carefull" and he will limb!
 
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The shoulder crunch mostly means that your opponent is scarred, probably he is bluffing.
 
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It is important that you have a good reading of the players at your table once identify the style of play of each may notice certain irregularities in his way of playing
 
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"The only way to get a really good idea for when someoneis bluffing is to play close attention to their individual tendencies"-Daniel Marks
 
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just pretend they are telling a story, what story are they trying to sell? does it make sense?
 
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just check the statistic of players, analize their bets and as a result can understand that my opponents try to bluff(but sometimes my Intuition helps me).
 
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Most players are easier to bluff after you have made some friendly gesture. If you have shared a joke or let share your hand while he is out of pot it could a good time to bluff.
 
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I try to notice a patron in the wating time before the push the call/fold/raise buton. It ussualy works out for me. If anything doesn't seem right, he is propably bluffing. (it also depands on the player ofcourse)
 
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In brick-and-mortar game, physical tells are decisive. Sweating, breathing, eye pupils and their movement and volume
(eye pupils are the organ that increases volume 6 times during excitement - and not the organ you'd think of...)
also, the direction of sight, any attempts to hide mouth with hands, any clenching of fists, the blushing of face, the famous gesture with crossed arms "I am disinterested", etc...
In online game, look if the opponent used "check/fold" automatic option on the previous street. Then, a high card appears and he suddenly bets big...
Also, monitor the betting behaviour - what amount relative to BB does your opponent use to raise preflop. If he typically raises 3 BB and after 1 hour of play he raises 5 BB - be careful...
If no action happened on the flop and turn, and if the river does not complete any str8 or flush - be ready to call a big bluff...
Well, I may be disagreed by some members here, but this is my point of view...
 
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strong always means weak and weak always means strong. no one bluffs the river with a small bet, no one shoves flop with quads. Flop shoves are often flush draws with or without overcards, sometimes 2 pair.
 
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