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Originally Posted by jack492505
You seem to be imagining that the only reason to bluff is to balance your range.
Not the "only," just the "essential" reason.
Poker is a game of decision-making with incomplete information. If you never bluff (or, if you always bluff) it is no longer a game of incomplete information. Quite the opposite, actually.
You could say that 1/2 players never pay attention to your bluff frequency. To that I would say:
1. Yuh-huh! Bluffing infuriates them. They do notice.
2. Not everybody at the poker table is a brain-dead calling station. Some are brain-dead nits. By which I mean, "people who never bluff." (And some are decent players. Like us!
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To be sure, a little of that goes a long way at 1/2. A looooooong way.
Who knows what the ideal bluff frequency is? James Swanson presented a simplified experimental model of poker where he was able to prove the ideal bluff frequency is 1/3. Real poker is different, and the ideal bluff frequency is table dependent. Maybe at 1/2 the ideal frequency is half that or less. But I will never believe in a million years the correct answer is zero.