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Old 11-30-2007, 01:24 PM
RudeboyOi RudeboyOi is offline
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Default Re: Optimum bluffing frequency question

first off that section in TOP

is more applicable to noncommunity card games
where your cards are hidden

if you want to bluff in the LHE
its all about board textures
kindof like writing a story

the action must make sense up to that point

and only bluff vs those who arent sd bound
they have a low WTSD% and b/f far too often

example hand

you raise from CO or button with your KsJs
the sb folds and the TAG bb 3bets

flop is Ts 6 5

so you currently have 6 pair outs and 1.5outs for a bdf
but your K outs may be dirty so we discount those by half

all together you have about 6outs

getting 7.5:1 from the pot makes this an easy call

turn is a 9 youre better off just calling here
with your monstrous amount of outs

hes unlikely to fold any hand in his range
and you may have as many as ten outs

if the turn is lets say an A

this is a good spot to bluff
if your opponent will b/f many of his pps

we no longer have the odds to call because
at this point all we can hope for

is for villian to barrel again with pps lower than Ts
if vililan is a true tag this pretty much means 99

but if we now turn our hand into a bluff by raising
we may get him to laydown the best hand
if his hand does not include an ace in it

and if he 3bs given that we may get
1 or 2bets in on the river

we now have the odds to call
drawing to our gutshot

just make sure if you had an A in this spot
youd routinely play it the same way

or anytime you raise this spot it looks like a bluff

we can easily have an ace here ourselves
given our preflop raise and our flop peel

so our TAGgish opponent will be hardpressed to call
with anything less than an ace

just be sure to not attempt bluffs
against those who wont fold

hope this helps

gl
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