Fish in a Barrel...

[mikem07]

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...Nothing makes me happier than making a calling station fold. It's just that that is very difficult to do....



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Why would you be happy to make a calling station fold? If you are playing straightfoward ABC poker against a calling station you are only betting when you have a hand and you are never happy when he folds.

Maybe your problem is you know what ABC poker is, but you never practice it?

[PantsOnFire]

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...Nothing makes me happier than making a calling station fold. It's just that that is very difficult to do....



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Why would you be happy to make a calling station fold? If you are playing straightfoward ABC poker against a calling station you are only betting when you have a hand and you are never happy when he folds.

Maybe your problem is you know what ABC poker is, but you never practice it?

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Sigh.

Some calling stations actually do fold. There is something that spooks them. It might be the size of the bet, it might be a paired board, it might be my image, it might be a three flush board when they have a straight draw, it might be folding the river always when they don't improve.

I get the part about not bluffing them and value betting good hands and I do that. However, I am trying to add a next dimension to squeeze a bit more out of them by recongnizing the exact situation(s) they are most afraid of and a bluff is actually +EV against these guys at that time.

I don't know about you but I am always looking for an edge. And when a strategy says something like "NEVER blah blah blah..", I like to dissect that and see if I can turn it into a MOSTLY. And of course, MOSTLY has to have positive expectation.