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Originally Posted by venice10
The answer if you are looking for a general guideline on when to bluff when an overcard flush card come on the turn, don't ever do it. You'll lose your shirt as people will call you down with all kinds of hands. Against certain villains that can lay down TP while you have a great image of hitting every draw, then consider it HU.
Had a hilarious hand happen to me the other day.
I'm in the SB with A
3
, 5-way limpfest pot. 2/5nl, eff stacks $500
Flop($25) T
4
8
I chk, ABC fish bets $20, LP calls, I call, everyone else folds
Turn(85) 2
I chk, ABC bets $70, LP tank calls, I call
River(295) 7
I bet $150, ABC player slams his fist on the table and says, "effing club, you are so lucky, stupid club, or you might have gotten the straight with J9..." and after going on and on for a minute about how many hands I hit that beat him, he then calls. LP tank calls.
I show the nuts, ABC proudly proclaims that he knew I had the flush and he shows AT and LP shows KT
He then went on for the next ten minutes to whine about how lucky I got and I kept thinking, "Yeah, lucky you are so bad..."
There are some players who we can rep and bluff off of hands, but there are a lot who just can't bring themselves to ever fold when they have a good hand.
Players we want to target for decent bluffs are players who make dramatic big laydowns so the table can see how good they are. These players will also like to announce their poker philosophies and broadcasts their thoughts. You will often hear them say things like, "I Know you got nothing, I know I got you beat, but I'm going to wait for a better spot..." Or they will say things like, "AK isn't a real hand... how could you raise with that..." and other weak tight fishy stuff. So yeah, against this breed of poker player, we can target them and bluff.
Otherwise, be careful because majority of our villains at LLSNL couldn't fold a made hand to save their lives...