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Tosh_67
Rock Star
Silver Level
I just had my most successful evening ever in terms of getting deep into tournaments...
Simultaneously placed 15 out of 5000+ and 12th out of 900+
The secret ! ...
Alcohol...
Well Alcohol led me to maybe the secret...
I have never bluffed as hard and as often as I did tonight...
Hopefully in the morning I will remember what I learnt this evening...
I am a terrible bluffer... I am the typical stereotypical miss the flop.. 'oh well' try to cheaply see the next card before folding type of player...
but tonight...
I was a bit tilted, and a bit drunk <which makes me play a bit more agg sometimes>
Tonight, I was missing Flops and betting hard ! normally i throw out pathetic whimping C Bets of 2 or 3 blinds... but tonight, I was sizing up my opponents stacks and betting usually half their stack if I could afford it....
I am not a good bluffer but I've started to think of what works against me and then try to reverse that angle.... And apply it against other opponents...
The thing about bluffing that has always troubled me up to now is that I am betting a lot of chips with nothing and if it fails... what do i do next ?.... Tonight I adopted the attitude... These are the chips I'm prepared to lose in an attempt to win a lot more ! And... It worked a lot more often and frequently than I thought it would !
I got really deep in 2 tourneys tonight and I have to say... It was not the alcohol <hope not> I think it was the conviction to bluff ! And I mean bluff with conviction ! Not allow opponents to call your bluff then leave you with a difficult choice to make ! I was forcing them to call with at least a third of their stack and in most cases they folded <to my relief and surprise>
I posted elsewhere that its difficult to bluff at micro level but i'm now unsure.... I often see Villains with awful stats but huge stacks... Makes me think, Are these players just great bluffers ?
All your comments are greatly appreciated but what I'd really like to ask is:-
Can you get really deep into tourneys without bluffing ?
Thanks for reading
Simultaneously placed 15 out of 5000+ and 12th out of 900+
The secret ! ...
Alcohol...
Well Alcohol led me to maybe the secret...
I have never bluffed as hard and as often as I did tonight...
Hopefully in the morning I will remember what I learnt this evening...
I am a terrible bluffer... I am the typical stereotypical miss the flop.. 'oh well' try to cheaply see the next card before folding type of player...
but tonight...
I was a bit tilted, and a bit drunk <which makes me play a bit more agg sometimes>
Tonight, I was missing Flops and betting hard ! normally i throw out pathetic whimping C Bets of 2 or 3 blinds... but tonight, I was sizing up my opponents stacks and betting usually half their stack if I could afford it....
I am not a good bluffer but I've started to think of what works against me and then try to reverse that angle.... And apply it against other opponents...
The thing about bluffing that has always troubled me up to now is that I am betting a lot of chips with nothing and if it fails... what do i do next ?.... Tonight I adopted the attitude... These are the chips I'm prepared to lose in an attempt to win a lot more ! And... It worked a lot more often and frequently than I thought it would !
I got really deep in 2 tourneys tonight and I have to say... It was not the alcohol <hope not> I think it was the conviction to bluff ! And I mean bluff with conviction ! Not allow opponents to call your bluff then leave you with a difficult choice to make ! I was forcing them to call with at least a third of their stack and in most cases they folded <to my relief and surprise>
I posted elsewhere that its difficult to bluff at micro level but i'm now unsure.... I often see Villains with awful stats but huge stacks... Makes me think, Are these players just great bluffers ?
All your comments are greatly appreciated but what I'd really like to ask is:-
Can you get really deep into tourneys without bluffing ?
Thanks for reading