[punter11235]

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This would be an example of playing suboptimally (never bluffing is suboptimal) to gain an even greater advantage over your opponents who are making even more serioius blunders by calling everything down. However, the higher limits you go, the more you need to get rid of the idea of playing suboptimally. This is especially true if you want to eventually become a HSNL player instead of just a MSNL player.


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Excuse me but you have no idea what you are talking about. Good players win because they dont use optimal plays but plays that are optimal vs particular opponent and its basic fact of game theory that vs any particular opponnet (or any betting strategy mixed or not) there exists one optimal play which DOES NOT include any mixing.

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"Are my opponents sophisticated enough to recognize that I am constantly betting less on a bluff as opposed to my monster hands?"



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But you wont constantly do this when they "realize" you will switch and if you are better at realizing when they realize you will win vs them its called "playing poker".

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You make money off of your opponents by putting extreme pressure on them and waiting for their mistakes.

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You realize that by using optimal bluffing strategy you dont put any pressure on anybody , right ?

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then your opponents would see that you are willing to put some serious money into the pot with a bluff, but probably not all in. Later, when you have a monster and go all in, your opponents may recognize your earlier hand and think, "the difference here is that he has gone all in. I have seen him bet heavy on a bluff ($150 on the river), but I have yet to see him go all in. Therefore, his all in bet this time must be real."

Now as some people have pointed out, some people don't go all in with their monsters. Now, if this is the

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Wow this way of thinkign is so bad. If they "realize" that you dont bluff when going allin you will and if they "realize" that you wont value bet 1/2 pot you will too. And if they "realize" that you switch your stratgy you will switch again and outplay them again. This is similair to someone saying "I cant raise preflop to 8BB with AA because they will "know" that I have it" every time I see such a sentence I want to ask " why not do it with 72o" then ? Usually the silence follow...

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Now as some people have pointed out, some people don't go all in with their monsters. Now, if this is the case, then perhaps your $150 bluff is okay too. However, I would contend you are making a mistake if you don't go all in when you have a monster. However, that is a whole new discussion.


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Great going allin with monsters is cool I agree. Bluffing with allin bets is cool too but it doesnt change the fact that if your opponent in this particular hand in this particular moment will call 150$ as often as he will 300$ bet you should bet 150 with your bluffs and 300 with your value bets. If there will be another hand and this time he wont use that strategy because he saw your bluff you will sue diffrent strategy this is how you use "history" and "metagame" you create image and stuff to make +EV plays vs particular opponents if you are to use optimal strategy you dont need any image and history at all because they wouldnt matter then...