No Bluffing Means No Chips
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When trying to win a poker tournament, almost all pros will tell you, you need to win hands when you don't have the cards. When you pull this off you are "making a move" in poker terms. Let's take a look at some of the ways a player does this.
The types of moves range from simply stealing the blinds, to complex bluffs. We will be looking at examples where we probably, or definitely, don't have the best hand. In these hands, we will try to convince our opponents to fold.
When you are the first to act, any raise with a weak hand is an attempt to steal the blinds. When the blinds get big, you will have no chance to win the tournament without stealing some of the blinds. This is the nature of tournament poker.
The check raise bluff is based on the strength of check raising. You're in the big blind, with 78 of diamonds. You call a raise. The flop is AJ4 with no diamonds.
You check and he bets the pot. You come back with a pot sized, or more, re-raise. If he doesn't fold, you will stop betting and cut your losses.
You can also use the semi bluff. You have KQ of hearts. You have called a raise.
The flop shows J74 with two hearts. Your opponent makes a big raise. Now you make a semi bluff by pushing all in.
If he folds, this is fine. If you get called you still can win. You have at least nine outs. This is a typical semi-bluff.
A clever river bluff goes like this. You've been calling raises for all three betting rounds. You feel your opponent has a good but not great hand, and is worried about your hand. You have a busted draw.
Now you make a small raise. This is designed to confuse your opponent into thinking you have been slow playing a big hand. This looks like a value bet that is begging for a call. This play requires your opponent to understand that the bet represents a strong hand that you have been disguising.
These are just a very small sample of the bluffs you can try. You need to creatively win chips some of the time. You can't expect to get enough big hand to avoid this need.
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