To Bluff or Not to Bluff: Your Ultimate Guide to Bluffing in Poker

[Bricxjo]

Reading this article, I thought I probably don't bluff enough, but it didn't make me want to bluff more. I would say most, if not all, of my bluffs are semi-bluffs, I usually need to have a piece of it to stay in the hand. I would still say the best advice is to bluff less frequently. There was a thing where it said you "had your hand caught in the cookie jar", there are times when I do a semi-bluff and my hand is automatically mucked and I want to say "I did have trips, but I saw your flush draw and the pot odds made me call" But in the end I suppose it is just best to say, "nh."

 

[duson]

This guide was actually very helpful. I tend to bluff early and more often in MTT's because I'm transitioning from cash games. Usually I would bluff alot more in cash games to isolate and take early pots but it doesn't work as much in MTT's since people are a little looser.

 

[Nelson1712]

I always do it in tables where there are opponents who already know their game, also in those who do not, in my opinion all players tend to do it even though it is risky for their stack, I always do bluff when I have projects .. I will read this guide and I'll analyze it to see if I can improve my game

 

[perrywh]

Almost impossible to bluff a bad player. They don't know they should fold

 

[Paya_31]

Falorear art is very interesting and in this article I learned things I did not have in mind is very important when you need to bluff to gain advantage over the other players, so I was not bluffing too, because neither. I will put into practice what they learned in the article.

 

[Ivansito26]

as I explain that knowing how to make a bluff is a skill that not all of us have, we must have cold blood and a good bankroll to go beyond the bluffs, but the specialists in this are the Russians we should know your opinion, and with respect To the article is very interesting the tips that they give us, I hope you read about the article 3 points that for me are the most important .. that are:
Time to bluff
Bluffing in multi-table tournament
Semi-bluff

 

[zam220]

I rarely bluff.Most of all I like, check raise on a non-dangerous Board! This is a very effective technique. You show that you are not afraid of a potentially strong hand, portraying a set or two pairs.

 

[santiago matias]

bluffing like anything else have also rules, you need to sharpen your eyes abbout players and the table cards, sometimes you just bluff for no reason, and it can make you loose a lot of chips, its better to read about bluffing before you start do in it in tables

 

[migesan]

I think that I rarely bluff, sometimes I attack a player I know to play on secure cards, but again it depends on the amount of chips, and on which position I find it difficult to bluff a player who has 10-15 more BB than me. then I attack only less if bluff.

 

[CadoARAJ]

I think bluff is essential at poker, sometimes is really necessary to keep you in good conditions at the tourney. But the bluff has to be like a true story, it has to be sense and seem to be really a bomb to your oponent. The risk has to be very intense to your villain or he/she will never believe in you.
Interesting and really true is the fact the bluff works better against experienced and good players, but actually not agains loose players. Do not confuse a fish, they will bite you.
Particulary, I do not like bluffs, only in specific cases. However, I like the semi-bluffs.
For me, the best lesson of the article was the size betting of the bluff. Really useful to our games.

 

[jfmcd86]

I bluff every now and then when playing poker, but not as much when multi-tabling.
I find it hard to do so because I get mixed up noting the players on the tables, so I don't know when to play, with the lack of information I have on them. I think it is risky to bluff at most times. I only succeed when playing a single MTT, I try to bluff at the right timing and all that.

 

[king11682]

Several factors should be considered when you decide to bluff – your position, your chip stack relative to other players in the hand, your table image, and the table image of the other players in the hand, and the betting history of that hand
Sometimes you succeed in a bluff but sometimes not, that is the risk to take

 

[es530]

The bluff for me has been the "paradise" or "hell"
The "hell" is that I practice a lot and when I want to extract chips, opponents do not know that I really have a hand.
The "hell" that sometimes I can not give up a hand thinking that my opponent has a smaller hand and does not want to fall and sometimes I pass the point losing chips and sometimes pile.
I believe bluffing is a key part, and after identifying every situation is that it should be used.
I've been reviewing some hands and I've noticed that it bluffs a few times without needing 5bb back to have a comfortable stack, just to impose on an opponent.

 

[Muzyka1996]

I am a tight player and if I talk to a bluff account, then I do not often do it. Preferably I do this when I have a big stack. If we talk about evaluating my bluff, then I'm not very experienced in this matter. I often make mistakes, bluffing, and losing part of the stack. Recently, I reduced the amount of my bluff, because when I did it it was not so profitable on the chips

 

[VovanBaron]

I was reading the article very detailed and carefully and really enjoyed the infos which I refreshed for myself.Personally I bluff normally using position and felling the right situation.I rely on my image and detecting the bluff I always look at my opponents and analyse which playstyle he preferrs,sometimes it works sometimes not but I like such game.

 

[johnwat2]

Great article, learned a little. I would love to see all the hole cards in the next CC freeroll
to observe how much bluffing is going on!:thumpdown

 

[Dejange]

I think the worst moment to bluff is when your game is not going well, i.e. that will result in a nightmare ...Prefer to bluff when my game is going hot or when I am on average, choosing carefully the spots and board cards where to attack!

 

[RidersFan]

One thing the article didn’t talk about was bluffing when you have a range advantage over your opponent. This is definitely a great way to make low variance bluffs and take down small pots. An example of this would be if a player opens from utg +2 and it folds to you in the B.B. with Q9cc, the flop come 472 rainbow w/ a club. This type of board texture often gets cbet far too often from early position raises, so you can check raise these types flops b/c calling from the B.B. you have more sets and more 2 pair combos than your opponent. Your opponents range is over cards, over pairs and occasionally a set of 7s(but on such a dry board a set of 7s probably checks back more often). Also the back door equity of the flush important to keep in mind.

 

[MrHachiman]

One of the fundamental things about the bluff that I did not quite understand when I started playing is what are the profitable situations to do it. When you understand the possible ranges of your hand and that of your opponent, and your range is polarized to the nuts or nothing, it is a good place for the bluff.

 

[DiegoRamos]

In this forum I have the reputation of abusing this ability, and I often use this in my favor. Particularly I do not use much bluff when I'm playing serious (when I apply my A game), in these last 3 months I'm focused on my primary profession, and obligatorily leaving poker in the background, so when I play, I do not fully apply the focus that I usually exercise (who picked up the tip picked up, who did not pick it up, did not pick up more haha), just play for fun and exercise the mind. But when I'm really playing to compete, you can be sure that I only apply against whom I have information or against someone who thinks he knows how I play and thinks he's predictable. At that moment I induce the adversary to error.

 

[sergik1992]

First of all thank you for good article! To my mind bluffing is very strong instrument in poker and you hardly can win big MTT tournaments without bluffing! But this instrument is very dangerous for you in freerolls and in micro limits MTT, because here are many players ready to check your bluff with nothing) So be careful!

 

[pirateglenn]

Bluffing Online and Bluffing Live

First of all thank you for good article! To my mind bluffing is very strong instrument in poker and you hardly can win big MTT tournaments without bluffing! But this instrument is very dangerous for you in freerolls and in micro limits MTT, because here are many players ready to check your bluff with nothing) So be careful!

I can advise that there is a massive difference here, as someone who bluffs in live poker - there is a huge skill to reading someone, the tell, the body language, the words they use - i wont say if i do or do not bluff online as that to me is information - there is a place and time to bluff but bluffing online is very hard..

AR AR AR AR

 

[gardin555]

I think bluffing is an art and a very important part of the game, but you have to do it at the right time to be really credible.

Sometimes the bluff is done when there is a dead pot, or when we dont have a hand at the flop but in the last streets like turn and river appear the card that could save our hand with a bluff , like a color or a possible straight on the board.

It is important to know the opponent that we make the bluff, as well as the right time to do it.

 

[guicor30]

Thanks for this CC article, I am going to put this article into practice and I will try to take some hands with a bluff.

Definitely does not have the same result in a freeroll because surely there will be some way to pay the bluff and we will end up being discovered by the opponents and that is not the goal, because what we try is to gain respect at the table so that they create future bluff fighters .

 

[Zorba]

I liked the article. :top:

I'm a semi bluffer mainly if I do bluff, quite often when i do make a play I get called by someone holding the nuts that has come from behind on the turn.

That's just how I roll.

:bandit: