An Interesting Idea for Psycho Bluffy Villains
08-31-2015
, 11:53 PM
In my last session before I got my seat I decided to watch a few hands. One hand stood out with a MAWG putting out a big raise on the river, then giving his opponent an epic staredown while holding his cards ready to muck/flip. It was such an obvious bluff/act IMO that I had to chuckle a bit from across the small room.
This guy is the kind that seems to think he has to try to win every single pot. He will raise his option pre-flop very often in the BB/straddle, and probably 1/3 of hands from other positions, c-bet about 100% and barrel frequently, bet when checked to very frequently, bluff raise frequently and bluff check-raise. He wouldn't often 3-bet light pre and he knew when to quit against (very) significant resistance post-flop. He didn't seem to be aware of good and bad opponents/boards/runouts to bluff at. He just likes to bluff.
One thing he had going for him was that he seemed to know to take advantage of his image by value betting his made hands, but other than that he was pretty terrible.
Because I'm naturally quiet and don't want to be seen as nitty I try to joke around at the table a little. One hand after an obvious, yet successful, flop bluff from the maniac, I lightheartedly yelled "showed the deuce," and he showed a deuce (no deuces on flop). Should I avoid calling him out even jokingly? I can see it either slowing him down in hands against me or encouraging him and loosening him up even more.
I am on the villain's direct left (not by choice, I'd rather be on his right)
One hand I overlimp 89o in the BU or CO and the flop comes 77J
and checks around. The turn is an off-suit 5 and it checks to me, I bet, villain calls. The river is a J, villain bets, I raise, villain folds T8o face up, I show. Villain remarks that I've been watching him too closely. I feel stupid for letting my ego out and letting villain know I've got him pegged down.
I don't remember the exact scenario or runout, but I'll do my best here and won't go into details anyway.
I am in the HJ with K
Qx. Villain limps in and I raise to $15. Four to the flop of Ax73 which checks around. Turn is 6, villain bets $20 and only I call, expecting him to barrel the river and planning on calling unimproved or raising if I hit the flush obviously. I don't want to raise him out now because I think my hand has more value as a bluffcatcher. River is A (not a ) and villain, to my dismay, checks. Checking back is the obvious play, but I want this guy's money. He won't have it for long the way he's playing. Despite other players failing to adjust to him much, he's going to own himself against some station and go busto. I think that he either has a hand with SDV and doesn't think he needs to bluff to win, or more likely is either planning a check/raise bluff or maybe realizes I can read his mind and I know he's FOS (I shouldn't have showed earlier 
). I think I have the best hand here 85% of the time or so. If he had hit the flop in pretty much any way he would have bet, weighting his range heavily towards air when he bets the turn. Is betting small to induce a reasonable play against a maniac? I am committed to calling a raise or 3-betting, and may even fold out his low PPs if he played them this way. It doesn't really matter that I don't rep much because this guy doesn't have anything and doesn't understand that I don't rep anything, IMO. Despite the fact that he seems to have given up on his bluff, he's the kind that will have a hard time not pouncing on what looks like a cheap stab at the pot if I bet something like $30.
Has anyone tried something like this against maniacs? Bet to induce with air so you can re-bluff at a bigger pot or bluff-catch profitably?
This might just be serious FPS and wanting to over-analyze my biggest losing session to date (-$534), but I'm disappointed that I didn't at least try it.
This guy is the kind that seems to think he has to try to win every single pot. He will raise his option pre-flop very often in the BB/straddle, and probably 1/3 of hands from other positions, c-bet about 100% and barrel frequently, bet when checked to very frequently, bluff raise frequently and bluff check-raise. He wouldn't often 3-bet light pre and he knew when to quit against (very) significant resistance post-flop. He didn't seem to be aware of good and bad opponents/boards/runouts to bluff at. He just likes to bluff.
One thing he had going for him was that he seemed to know to take advantage of his image by value betting his made hands, but other than that he was pretty terrible.
Because I'm naturally quiet and don't want to be seen as nitty I try to joke around at the table a little. One hand after an obvious, yet successful, flop bluff from the maniac, I lightheartedly yelled "showed the deuce," and he showed a deuce (no deuces on flop). Should I avoid calling him out even jokingly? I can see it either slowing him down in hands against me or encouraging him and loosening him up even more.
I am on the villain's direct left (not by choice, I'd rather be on his right)
One hand I overlimp 89o in the BU or CO and the flop comes 77J
and checks around. The turn is an off-suit 5 and it checks to me, I bet, villain calls. The river is a J, villain bets, I raise, villain folds T8o face up, I show. Villain remarks that I've been watching him too closely. I feel stupid for letting my ego out and letting villain know I've got him pegged down.I don't remember the exact scenario or runout, but I'll do my best here and won't go into details anyway.
I am in the HJ with K
Qx. Villain limps in and I raise to $15. Four to the flop of Ax73 which checks around. Turn is 6, villain bets $20 and only I call, expecting him to barrel the river and planning on calling unimproved or raising if I hit the flush obviously. I don't want to raise him out now because I think my hand has more value as a bluffcatcher. River is A (not a ) and villain, to my dismay, checks. Checking back is the obvious play, but I want this guy's money. He won't have it for long the way he's playing. Despite other players failing to adjust to him much, he's going to own himself against some station and go busto. I think that he either has a hand with SDV and doesn't think he needs to bluff to win, or more likely is either planning a check/raise bluff or maybe realizes I can read his mind and I know he's FOS (I shouldn't have showed earlier ). I think I have the best hand here 85% of the time or so. If he had hit the flop in pretty much any way he would have bet, weighting his range heavily towards air when he bets the turn. Is betting small to induce a reasonable play against a maniac? I am committed to calling a raise or 3-betting, and may even fold out his low PPs if he played them this way. It doesn't really matter that I don't rep much because this guy doesn't have anything and doesn't understand that I don't rep anything, IMO. Despite the fact that he seems to have given up on his bluff, he's the kind that will have a hard time not pouncing on what looks like a cheap stab at the pot if I bet something like $30.Has anyone tried something like this against maniacs? Bet to induce with air so you can re-bluff at a bigger pot or bluff-catch profitably?
This might just be serious FPS and wanting to over-analyze my biggest losing session to date (-$534), but I'm disappointed that I didn't at least try it.
