Bluffing the Blinds

Are you insane? How could you bluff the blinds?

Consider this, you have just as much chance of matching one or both hole cards on the flop with 4-5 as you do A-K.

the only advantage of higher ranking cards is they beat lower ranking ones, provided you both have the same hand -- a pair, two pair, whatever.

Statistically, 4-5 will come up just as often on the flop as A-K.

So there's this big round of pre-flop betting. The smarter players all have royalty in their hand -- at the very least an Ace or King, and hopefully that's matched to 10 or above.

Most of the time, what comes up on the flop is garbage, not more royalty.

And that's when "garbage" cards like 4-5 can win.

Big deal, SO WHAT you say.

The BIG DEAL is that, provided you're playing with decent poker players, most of whom only call that big pre-flop betting if they have royalty for hole cards.

You now know know they don't have squat.

Got it?

Which would you rather have, a shoot-out with other royalty holders or a slam-dunk because you're the only player playing garbage.