Hey all I was thinking maybe it would be fun to have a thread where we posted a bluff that we made from the day's session.

Kind of like the chip stack thread, it's not meant to be super high content but more like a lounge and spot to shoot the breeze about bluffs; brag when it worked, or complain when they made a terrible call and won all your chips.

I'll start things off: I'm not sure why but I decided to check raise a turn that read K89 7 after check calling the flop. This time it worked he said I must have 77 or 99 but I had AJ!

So LLSNL, tell me about your bluff today


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I find my bluffs come few and far between, and I just have to patiently wait for the right spot. In my 11.5 hr session on the weekend, I think I did like 2 bluffs on big streets.

Anyhoo, I overlimp A5ss on the Button, 5way to Qh8h3s checks thru. Ks turn, BB bets $15 into $15, folds to me. He's straightforward ABC and sees me the same way. I figure I have upwards of 18 outs (half my flush draw, half a flush draw I can rep) and call. 2h river. He bets a weak $20 into $45, I bluff raise to $60, and it gets thru. I was a little worried about this one because my check back on the flop might not make a lotta sense if I did have the heart draw, but it worked as he's obviously giving more weight to big street action.

Later I ran KK into his AA for 66bb preflop and gave it (and more) all back, so it's almost like it didn't matter.

GhasnoideawherethisthreadisgoingG

Table was really loose/passive. I opened to $12 with 57 in the CO after two limpers, got 5 callers.

Flop was ($60)
KJ4

Checks around, turn is
KJ48

Checks to me I bet $35, 1 caller.

River ($130):
KJ482

Checks to me I bet $45 V folds.

I like our flop play. (ETA: I was assuming 1/3 NL where a $12 raise has zero chance at narrowing the field preflop)

Think every other street blows up in our face the majority of the time.

GimoG

$1/2 but yeah expected to go multi-way. Yeah well it didn't blow up in my face so the results say I am awesome.

I don't know, it felt alright. Everyone seemed fairly disinterested. I had the initiative in the hand already even though I checked flop, (which I had also done with value hands in this session) and it had checked around to me twice. I picked up a gutter on the turn and the call to me indicated a draw, a weak pair or a combo, none of which improved on the river.

My sizing on the riv was definitely small and going to get looked up a lot, but does a nice job of balancing thin value bets and inducing bets on future rivers. I also expect him to just give up all his missed draws with that size.

^^^^

Imo, once you check back the flop (which I'm fine with) no K or J (heck, maybe even an 8 or something like 99) is ever going to fold. Somehow 4 opponents didn't have one, nor did the one lone guy with the busted draw (who was somehow the only guy who had a draw, and who also managed to whiff hitting a pair).

Gdoubtthislineisprofitable,imoG

First hand at a newly opened table, unknown V opens EP to $7, Hero calls LP with JT

Flop $17
KQ6

V $10, Hero calls

Turn $37
KQ6 7
V check, Hero $20, V call

River $77
KQ67 3
V check, Hero $50, V calls and his TT is good

Turn seems fine, V may be giving up and you have a ton of outs. I'm checking back on the river, 3c changes nothing and V can't really have many missed draws.

Key for me here is that we're unknown to each other. We need some sorta image / history / etc. before bluffs are going to be successful. Plus we have no clue whether this guy is simply checking TPTK (or more) here on the turn in attempt to pot control / etc.

I woulda simply checked back on the turn and attempted to bink. ETA: Missed that we picked up a flush draw on the turn, I don't hate a small bet as obviously that will be EV in itself with even just a smidge of FE. Even so, I think I'd still prefer a check against unknowns.

GcluelessbluffingnoobG

2/5 game. Folds to me on the button and I make it 15 with A2s. SB folds and BB makes it 40. 400 effective and I make it 95. V folds quickly claiming pocket tens.

1/3 open $20 from MP with AQhh, LAG three bets to $70 from CO, I call. Flop Kh-10x-7h I lead $100 V calls. Turn 8x I lead $230 V calls. River 6x I lead $700 V calls, shows 64hh. FeelsBadMan

This. A little surprised he called down with TT, but still not a great river bet.

Ouch lol. Pretty nice guy to have at the table though

Wow. My 1/3 NL game actually has a $700 maximum bet rule, which I've only seen come into play I believe once (maybe twice) in ~3000 hours.

You must have quite the table image!

GouchG

Definitely like the thread idea.

2/5
limp, guy who I thought was solid makes it $30, 3 calls, I call with A9, limper calls.

Pot $180
Flop KT7
checks to PFR who cbets $135, two calls (one short-stack), I rip it in for $900-$1k, PFR calls after about 15 seconds and short stack calls.

Turn 6
River 4

PFR 89 and scoops
Short Stack 54

I guess this technically isn't even a bluff since I had the best hand lol - but I will be overbet jamming my sets from now on especially since there were like 5 regs at the table

I also clearly had much less FE than I expected

I think anyone who reads my hand histories on this forum probably would love to sit with me. I don't exactly have respect for money.

Was about a week ago, found my big value bets/shoves recently not being called so thought I should probably be bluffing more. Probably could've picked a better hand to bluff with but my "gut" said he would fold his over pair to a 3 barrel on this board.

1/2 Eff stacks ~$600

EP limp
Hero MP raise to $10 with KdQs
Villain BTN 3b to $25
EP and Hero call

(Pot $75) Flop:
9 5 3

Checks to Villain, bets $35
EP folds
Hero raises to $90
Villain calls

Pot ($255) Turn T

Hero bets $120
Villain calls

Pot (~$500) River 7

Hero bets all-in ~$350
Villain tank folds, says "I can't go broke with one pair"

1/2

Hero in Sb w/ 87hh

Entire world limps, Hero completes, BB lol raises to 12, entire world calls, hero calls

Flop is 7 or 8 handed

A♠️T♣️T♠️

Hero checks, BB bets $25, all fold to hero, hero c/r $50, V quickly calls.

Turn 8♦️

Hero shoves for ~160 (I was shoving any non A)

BB tank folds

1/3 with $250 effective stacks, 6 players on table. My read on villain (BTN) was that he was a "lookup artist" that loved to float flop Cbets.

Hero is dealt As 9s in CO
SB posts $1
BB posts $3
Folds to hero
Hero raises to $15
Villain (BTN) calls $15
Everyone else folds

$30 in pot
Flop shows 6c 4s 2d

Hero Cbets $25
Villain calls $25

$80 in pot
Turn shows 7d

Hero checks
Villain bets $40
Hero shoves ALL-IN for $210
Villain folds

All of these are huge spew so far keep up the good work team :thumbsup:

wow dirty call by villain - love your effort though. i unilaterally rate this bluff 6/10, with potential to be 9/10 had you raised turn and fired river.

nice! 8/10 for getting BB to fold tens. Could have been 10/10 had BB folded KK.

wow i loved this all the way through until i saw what villain looked you up with - what a luckbox. 9/10 for firing all 3 barrels. would have been 10/10 had he called with worse.

ya i can't rate this one as i don't see it as a bluff. tough beat though you were a fist-pump favorite vs those hands.

always tricky to run bluffs on "look-up artists", so congrats on slipping one past the goalie. 8/10 for a nice turn c/r with good fold equity.

Some successful spew

Effective stacks 400. Hero raised 9s8s to $10 from HJ. CO and Btn call.

Flop KT7r, one spade. H bets 20. CO raises to $40. Btn reraises to 80. H shoves 300 more. Both fold. CO claims two pair and btn claims AK

Need to hear the logic on this one.

And people dont like my lines? WOW! is all I can say.

My logic was that CO was pretty nitty, while BTN was pretty spewy. Didn't want to fold, didn't think I could call, so decided to raise, and shoved to maximize FE given that I was committed to the hand with any raise. Didn't think that CO would want to get $400 in the middle with a marginal hand, especially with BTN still to act, and that BTN was making a move (which he does frequently). Think KK or AK are getting 3-bet pre, and BTN would 3-bet TT too. I'm also the only person in the hand who can have KK. Obviously I want folds, but not a disaster if I get called given I have an OESD and BDFD, and if somehow both call I'm getting odds on my draw again. Finally, relatively dry board so I have one of the two possible semibluffs (QJ being the other).

The other point is that I play in a relatively small player pool at an underground game, and while I don't worry much about balance I do like to have some overbet shoves in my arsenal with non-nutted hands from a meta perspective since I like to overbet nutted hands too.

All that said, it was certainly spewy and I was lucky it worked. Posting here in part to get flamed for it.