I hate this. Like you said pick a bluff spot where you have a little more equity. You rep exactly nothing but a set here and I think villain should have looked you up.

Not sure how to raise the turn when V checks OOP? Villain should have folded. He's well behind my range here. I feel like his turn check caps his range where I'm closer to uncapped. I think if we'd had more history it would work with my image. V turned out to be a good and observant player who is a reg that normally plays 2/5.

1/2

Hero (BB) has a winning tight image, only shown winners.

V (BTN) has a tight, I felt nitty image

300 effective

Several limpers, BTN raises to $12, hero calls with 65s, all other limpers fold (unexpected for the table)

Flop: T76r

Hero checks, button cbets 15, hero calls

Turn: 4r

Hero checks, button bets 25, hero c/r 85 to rep sets/straight vs buttons OP/TP hand.

Button folds claiming JJ

Nice hand. Great turn sizing allows you to leverage his whole stack, because it implies you're shoving river, and obviously you have a ton of outs if called.

How do you precede on river if called? I'd generally shove if I improve and x/f if not, but do you ever continue with a river shove if called and you whiff the river? Are there any cards you would bluff on river? I could see bluffing if a 9 hits, don't think I'd bluff an overcard since it's hard for us to have overcards here and V could have hit two pair.

This one qualifies as a nice semi-bluff. Not sure if OP was including semi-bluffs when he started the thread or not.

i started the thread as an idea, in the hopes that it is appreciated and supported by the community. i can't keep it going by myself or really "regulate" it either.

that being said i have no problem with people posting semi-bluffs, but i may or may not give it an arbitrary rating!

It's only a semi bluff because i got a card that improved my actual hand, in reality any card that was T or lower, I would have c/r because my range was smashing this flop and I put him squarely on an OP if he cbet turn

Of course. If you didnt get a card that improved your hand, and still check raised it wouldve been a bluff. I wasnt implying you wouldnt have bluffed a different turn card. I was just pointing out that your check raise is trying to take down the pot now with nothing by repping a huge hand that you dont really have, but even if he doesnt fold you still have a decent number of outs to win the pot which is the definition of a semi-bluff.

Wow, sone pretty good spew here lol.

In theory anything T- should help us, that is practically 2/3 of the deck, and we should be betting on them pretty regularly with our entire c/r range here because he shouldn't have > 1 pair basically ever and we should have > 1 pair a ton.

In reality though, the problem is that if he calls the c/r he just might be one of those players who can't fold and an overpair despite the "obvious" sign that he's beat.

In game I probably bet, but I think I'd probably be diluting myself to think he folds there with JJ+. Which kinda leads into what should the sizing be if he calls and we bink a straight, trips or 2P

Fwiw, he asked me later what I had and I told him I flopped a straight, which is when he told me he folded JJ

Lol @ Johnny getting hate for posting the first legitimate bluff itt.

FWIW I think this thread would have traction/merit if it had a format.

Hand history
Why I bluffed
Why bluff is good
Why bluff is bad

Just my .02

I dont see any hate for Johnny here at all. I said it was a semi-bluff and MIB211 said "Nice Hand" and is asking him about his thought process.

Would be interested to know the extent to which people think this is spew:

1/2 ~220 effective

My image is very tight, I have been card dead for hours, only hand I have played of note was to squeeze an open and 3 calls with KK, I took it down and didn't show.

Passive player in MP limps in, thinking student/reg in CO raises to 15, I look down at 6 5 in the SB and decide to capitalise on my image and COs sizing tell (pretty sure he makes it ~12 with strong hands, he's just trying to steal / iso here with something playable but marginal), so I 3bet to 45. CO calls, HU to the flop.

Flop T 8 4 (pot:94)
I cbet 55, CO calls

Turn K (pot:204)
I check, CO checks

River is J
I jam for 120 because the turn check back caps him so much.

Spew rating out of 10?

I didn't take it as hating on me, just explained my thoughts a little more than I did in the original post


+1 to formatting for continuation of threads health

Not sure if mods could put that in OP

I'd probably make my preflop raise slightly smaller.

I'd probably make my flop cbet smaller.

Not a fan of the turn. No equity if called, a draw did get there, it's possible he had us crushed on the flop (or even preflop), etc. I mean, obviously this sorta stuff works some of the time, and I guess we did choose the correct opponent (one who loves to float flops to steal on turns), but I'm not convinced it is good.

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Also, is anyone else experiencing some weirdo otherworldly forum formatting in this thread?

Gorisitjustme?G

Me too.

I don't love jamming that river card. The Jc completes a ton of draws, all of which are consistent with his line. You're trying to tell the story that you have AQ or an ace-high flush. You don't have any blockers to either of those hands.

The river jam gets him to fold his missed draws and medium pairs. But you aren't telling a particularly consistent story, and you've been able to eliminate very few hands from his range.

I'd like the bluff a lot more if you had the bare ace of clubs...

$2/5 $1500 eff

I open AQdd from MP to $20, loose-passive rec player calls the big blind.

Flop ($40) Kc 8h 4d.

Villain checks, hero bets $30, villain folds 55 face up.

/end thread

I was wondering who the 1st would be to post a common cbet hand.

I'm your dingleberry!

I totally agree about better bluffing hands for this action/runout.

I guess I'm more interested in whether this bluff shows a profit in a vacuum though.

That said, I would expect a good player to jam the turn with draws given that I rep mostly JJ, QQ and surrendered bluffs, so I think he can't have nutted hands on the river either really. And AQ definitely makes sense for my line. I might play KK, AcKx and AcAx that way too. I also would almost certainly play AcKc this way and maybe some other flush draws, given I think he expects me to jam on the overcard turn a lot, so my FE doesn't actually increase in the turn.

He called with JhTh after a little thought. I'm fairly sure he folds if he doesn't make 2 pair that actually beats some of my value jams, though.


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6♥️5♥️ hand, not sure we're deep enough to be doing this in general. 120 into 204, V only needs 28% equity to call and our range isn't repping too much IMO

Once V calls your cbet on the flop, he isn't going anywhere with half of his stack in the middle. You might get a fold from 99 or 77, but pretty much every other holding V has either got there on the river, was already there, or will make a crying call with one pair hands.

pretty standard 2 barrel but I guess it qualifies:

1/3 9 handed, vill has about $550 and I cover. He raises to $10 in EP and I 3b AKo to $25 everyone else folds.

flop: 9 5 3 r

he checks, I bet $40, he calls not quickly but doesn't appear to contemplate a fold.

turn: 5 of bdfd

he checks I bet $125, he looks me over and folds pretty quickly.

He probably has a mid PP here though I guess a worse Ahi is possible. He hadn't been doing a lot of peeling and folding, nor had I been doing much barreling. Like I said, pretty standard, but technically a bluff.

2/5, about $700 effective

Tight Passive old guy limps, I overlimp A5, two loose passives limp, SB makes it $30, oldie calls, I call because I don't come to the casino to fold, another calls.

I think the limp/call is okay because UTG's range is too strong to iso profitably, and the table calls raises loosely. Table has been passive so it gets limped around a lot.

Flop ($120): KQ3
Checks around.
Turn ($120): Jo.
SB leads $85, I call. His preflop raising range hits this board pretty hard. Betting flop/raising turn are both pretty meh. I have implied odds.
River ($290): 9o.
He bets $125, I raise to $310. He folds JJ.
My plan was to hit and get paid, but I got a great card to bluff at as I have much more Tx in my range than him. The raise is small, but a big one shouldn't be required