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Poker strategy VIII — more bluffing play

Monday, October 6th, 2008

Expert poker players know how to use bluffing to their advantage and don’t use this form of strategy indiscriminately. The success of bluffing is inversely proportional to the chance of being called, so higher the probability of being called lower is the profitability of bluffing and vice versa.

There are some circumstances when even a veteran player’s bluff may fall flat whereas sometimes, even audacious bluffing makes considerable profits. Games of poker involving fewer opponents are good to use the bluff tactics as with lesser number of players required to fold to ensure a win, the chance of the bluff being exposed is lower. The betting pattern of the player who is bluffing and also that of his opponent are crucial factors in allowing the bluff player to return with a winning. Moreover, if the opponent is given to passive play or if he is willing to fold and not unnecessarily drag by himself starting to bluff, also ensures that the player’s bluff will not be called and he stands the chance to win the pot.

When someone seldom bluffs, it creates an image in the mind of the opponents that the player would not bet or raise if he did not have a superior hand or a realistic chance of improving his hand and get advantageous pot odds. However, if one frequently bluffs, his opponents can nullify this tactics by calling his hand or re-raising their own wager. So it is a tactical masterplan to employ in bluffing irregularly which never allows the opponents to formulate their own counter-tactics as they have no sure way of telling whether the bet and/or raise by the player has been done with a really good hand or with a weak hand coupled with bluffing. This judicious use of the bluffing gameplan is termed the optimal bluffing strategy which is based on a random pattern preventing opponents from finding out any set rule by which they can tell if bluffing has taken place.