turning hand into bluff meaning

[aszmel]

what does it exactly mean to turn my hand into bluff?? examples appreciates [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

[PokerKhan]

This can have various meanings in various situations:

1. You are a poker journalist writing an article about a hand from a tournament. In this case, 'bluff' should be capitalized (as in Bluff Magazine), but then so should 'what.'

2. You stick your hand into a running snow blower. Here we have an example of a typo - the 'b' in 'bluff' is supposed to be an 'f'. (Similar to the 's' in 'appreciates', which should be a 'd'.)

3. 'Turn my hand into bluff' is an expression based on the old English word 'bluffe' - from which we get the modern definition "a steep headland, promontory, riverbank, or cliff." The expression means to steer in the wrong direction, such as a ship into a cliff. For example: The poker player turned his hand into bluff when he flipped up his pocket aces and said "All In." (He was on the bubble in a 10K tournament and forgot that exposing his cards in a tournament caused his hand to be dead, thus losing all his chips to the lucky donkey chip leader who raised first with 72 offsuit.)

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You have 88 in late position against one opponent.

Flop 7-5-3. He checks, you bet the pot, he calls.

Turn 7-5-3-A. He checks, you bet 2/3 pot, he calls.

River 7-5-3-A-6. He bets out small.

You can either fold, call the river (you were betting your hand for value on earlier streets, but now you might be happy to take a cheap showdown), or RAISE the river as a bluff, because clearly on this board you do not expect to get paid by a worse hand. Thus, you've taken a hand that you were betting for value, and with a river raise, turned it into a bluff.