Three Bluffers I Know

Bogos, LordVZ, and Billum probably mean nothing to you. They're the online handles of some people I play poker with online.

And they're all magnificient bluffers.

I swear, VZ spends more time looking for weakness, bluffing opportunities, than he does playing his own cards.

Sometimes I could swear that EVERY SINGLE TIME the table shows weakness, out comes an outrageous bet by VZ. And having already "told" him they had nothing, they have no recourse but to fold when he tosses out a big pile of chips.

(The only recourse I found, was to slowplay trips and flushes and wipe him out)

Billum used a divide an conquer approach.

If he matched high card on the flop, whatever it was, he'd raise so much that anyone not holding that card felt compelled to fold. Usually he'd end up with only one or two opponents. After any other high card came up, say an Ace or King, he'd raise ridiculous. Unless the other player also hit on that ace or king, they invariably folded. Like the wolf and the sheep, his goal was always to get one off to the side and come in for the kill.

Bogos, ahh, Bogos. Took me a while to figure out his game. Seeing as 70% of the time, the winning hand on the flop was the winning hand at the river, whenever he matched the high card on the flop, he went nuts with the betting. He never, ever bluffed "naked." He always had at least a pair.

There are others, like Chicataks. What I discovered about her bluffing is that once she began a bluff, she never laid down. She'd go all-in on the river, if necessary, to throw off an opponent.
She also got wiped out with this strategy now and then.

Consistently these bluffers all did a couple of things. One, they looked for weakness. Two, they bet or raised well beyond the "norms" for that stage of the game. Three, they waited till enough was in the pot that they COULD throw in an extra-large bet. Four, they usually were late.
Five, they usually had a lot more chips than the other players at the table and could threaten a lesser player's entire bankroll with only 10-20% of their own.

I'm sure there's more, but I haven't learned all their secrets yet.