Saturday, January 5, 2008

You Keep Getting Bluffed

You know they're bluffing. Hand after hand. But you seem powerless to do anything about it. You can't afford to call their bluffs, and the one or two times you tried, they actually had something and you lost.

You're not going to like what I'm about to tell you.

It's your own damn fault.

You're playing garbage. K-6-3 shows on the flop and by placing a small or medium bet , you're telling this bluffer "I don't have the King."

Checking, or placing small bets signal weakness.

And that's what the bluffer is looking for, for the betting to go around the table with either no betting or only small bets.

That's when they throw down a big bet.

You need to quit playing garbage. Once every four or five hands, MAYBE you play garbage, YOU do the bluffing. Bet AS IF you have the King.

In the mean time, it's "Fit or Fold." If you don't have winning cards, check, and fold when the bluffer raises big.

Quit calling or raising on garbage.

Once you establish a reputation as the player who sits there forever waiting for winning cards, and always wins with them, THEN you can pull off a bluff now and then playing the six or the three.

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