What about this bluff in the first level of blinds. I know a villain a little his status is 20/17, 134 hands played with him. I called the flop to evalute the turn knowing that he was betting a lot on this board with nothing, so the turn came a good card for me 7. I had a 9d to block and the river Js that was good too. What is your thoughts about this bluff?



[converted_hand][hand_history]Poker Stars, $0.91 Buy-in (10/20 blinds, 3 ante) No Limit Hold'em Tournament, 9 Players
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CO: 1,497 (VPIP: 15.98, PFR: 12.70, 3Bet Preflop: 5.96, Hands: 393)
BTN: 1,584 (VPIP: 20.90, PFR: 17.56, 3Bet Preflop: 8.89, Hands: 134)
SB: 1,437 (VPIP: 100.00, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 1)
Hero (BB): 1,497
UTG: 1,497 (VPIP: 0.00, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: -, Hands: 1)
UTG+1: 1,497 (VPIP: 0.00, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: -, Hands: 1)
MP: 1,497 (VPIP: 5.88, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 34)
MP+1: 1,497 (VPIP: 13.08, PFR: 8.00, 3Bet Preflop: 2.63, Hands: 107)
MP+2: 1,497 (VPIP: 14.84, PFR: 11.40, 3Bet Preflop: 5.27, Hands: 1,481)

Preflop: Hero is BB with 9 A
6 folds, BTN raises to 60, SB folds, Hero calls 40

Flop: (157) T 6 T (2 players)
Hero checks, BTN bets 63, Hero calls 63

Turn: (283) 7 (2 players)
Hero checks, BTN bets 159, Hero raises to 453, BTN calls 294

River: (1,189) J (2 players)
Hero bets 918 and is all-in

1. dont bluff on $1 sngs
2. If you cant resist, why on earth are you picking a hand with a good sd value and little potential to improve to do this with?
3. to answer your question: i hate it

Man there is no rule for it, "dont bluff in $1". I'm here to discuss the hand not to tell me that doesn't exist bluffs in some stake.

I guess what Wanderer meant was that there is no value in them at those stakes since people tend to play ABC poker.

I've noticed myself that after watching a bunch of videos on RIO I've started to overdo stuff and started loosing simple hands. Seems like ABC works best here. Perhaps I am not right and bluffing, range balancing etc. are profitable at those stakes. Someone advanced would need to verify. ;-)

Yeah playing ABC poker is best at these stakes... even MUCH higher buyins, can't over state this. I don't mind the flop call if the villain isn't super aggro, if we know he'll cbet then shutdown then flop call is OK.

But to be honest there isn't much that will come on the turn that will be "a good card" the only thing you'll get is better showdown value. So because he's now doubled barreled on this wet board and we have A high with a gutshot we need to fold. He's likely not folding any draws (whether it's correct for him or not). So fold move onto the next hand

Is the 7 that good of a turn?

If you're going to play this hand aggressively then I'd much prefer a 3b pre.

Well that should mean there is a lot of value in bluffing in many situations where ABC players shouldn't have much that is happy calling/floating.

A c-bet would be nice on the flop because we won't get called much. The way it is played is just FPS though.

sorry but I didn't understand. What is FPS ?

Fancy Play Syndrome

Sorry, I didn't explain correctly and wrote it slightly wrong.

What I rather meant was we shall play ABC since there are a lot of recreational players who do not maybe even understand concepts like pot odds etc.


Was I drunk or something when I was writing that? ...

right, it's not a big mistake, you just wrote "since" instead of "so" .

Mowisz po angielsku lepszie nez ja mowim po polsku

Po prostu angielski jest praktycznie moim pierwszym jezykiem od 4 lat ;-)

Eng.: some jibber-jabber only slightly related to the topic. :P

Looking at the hand again, I would like to know what our image is to this player. His stats suggest he may be susceptible to a 3-bet bluff here - i.e. this kind of player opens super-wide when folded to on the button. Also you could raise flop (sorry not c-bet as per earlier post) which has likely missed him. I would fold turn though - he actually has something.

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3 bet preflop vs pretty much anyone at those stakes is most plus ev line.