good point lol
Sounds like Hellmuth telling everyone he is going to trap them with the nuts!
Really? You play like a nit, waiting for the nuts, and you are going to slow play bluff? Nut straight Vs Polk is a good example!
If you never bluff U rarely get paid!
Ive always heard that if you never bluffed, youre playing poker wrong.
It seems tricky, but learning itâs not all about bluffing is an eye-opener. Iâll try to up my game and play with more strategy.
Well said, Bluffing is a tool of poker and required to use at times to win or even place.
Bluff is essential in poker.
We need to variate the way we play during the game, make dificult for the other players to read you.
No Bluff no gain.
Yes, I strongly agree. Daniel Negreanu promotes a similar tactic, as well. He calls it âfrequency.â While I would not apply GTO poker theory here, it is good to change your game against regular players.
This can also create opportunities to bluff or semi-bluff, even on Replay.
Great post. Bluffing is part of the game of poker, but sometimes some players bluff too much and get caught and end up sitting out of the table.
For me bluffing itâs an art because you need to do this very very good,when you are hesitate one second,the other players can smell you and you lose all
In my opinion bluffing itâs very useful in poker,but in the momentâs when you can resist to the pressure of the pot,I donât recommand to do bluffing in cash tables,only in tournamentâs
You hit the nail on the head! Pokerâs not just about bluffing.... itâs all about strategy and knowing when to bluff and when to play it straight. Balance is key, right?
Absolutely and always be Unpredictable! 
Ty Luvepoker top read.
Love to bluff -there are heaps of opportunities to represent st8s, flushes and sets for example. One or my favourites is a high card to the board on turn or river when the flop has smaller cards and there has been little or no after flop betting. Need to consider the player(s) you are trying to bluff ofcourse.
While there is bluffing in poker, poker is not about the bluff. Most top pros say if you bluff more than a handful of time per session you may be over doing it.
This is a great post overall but some of the particulars seem wrong to me. Iâm not sure where this assertion comes from, but it is just factually incorrect. The best pros are bluffing A LOT, certainly far more than a few times per session.
Maybe itâs a matter of semantics, though. @luvepoker would you call a cbet when you miss the flop a bluff? For instance if we raise preflop from early position and get called by someone in late position, and the flop comes Ace high, we should be cbetting probably more than 80% of the time.
If we check our preflop raises the majority of the time that we miss the flop, we are leaving a lot of potential value on the table (in addition to being highly exploitable). Another example: UTG+1 makes a standard open and we 3bet from the button with AK. Flop 2 6 6 rainbow. This is a cbet all day long; villain is unlikely to hold either of those cards, and we have the nut no-pair. There is plenty of AQ/AJ in villainâs range too, most likely, unless they are a meganit. These hands might call our cbet, using the same logic about our hand - and in this case, drawing extremely thin against us.
But I absolutely agree that the bluff has to âtell a good storyâ and you canât just bluff anytime you think villain is relatively weak or non-nutted. As the saying goes, âjust because you know what they have, doesnât mean you get to win.â That one has always stuck with me as a good reality check against overbluffing.
Finally, someone else in this thread said that itâs a bad idea to bluff from the small blind; I completely disagree In fact, I probably bluff more from the SB than any other position, aside from the button. This is partly due to my playing so many MTTs, where lots of hands late in the tournament will fold to the SB, and the pot may already be quite lucrative relative to stack sizes (especially with antes in play), so there is great incentive to steal the BB.
But in any setting, the SB and BB have 1 distinct range advantage in return for their extreme positional disadvantage: they have the widest ranges on the table. When the flop comes disconnected junk and checks around, there is often a great opportunity for the SB/BB to steal the pot on the turn: everyone else has already shown weakness, we have first action on the next street, and we are the player most likely to connect with junky boards.