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Originally Posted by Pokie
Just check it back, (like you did). You obviously thought that your opponent was bluffing, and you have a bit of showdown value, so take your cheap showdown. Any bet from you would be a pure bluff, because nothing worse will call, and yet you have no need to try and win the pot with a bluff as you could easily have the best hand some of the time.
Good call. I did not think he was bluffing. I was under the impression he was playing scared. However I did check in this situation and it seems by the feedback I have been getting that it was the right play (and I can understand why).
I only thought of the bluff attempt when reviewing the hand.
He is very tight-passive-aggressive going by his stats. He is definately not a TAG player at all. (I am confident of that).
He only played 14 hands at my table and then buggers off after being down $5. He only won 1 of those 14 hands.
A TAG player would be checking to try induce a bluff and to try and get value from busted draws vs his overpair. However I dont think this is the case with him. Someone else shoved all in against him in another hand with a similar stack size and he folded. (ironically). (on the turn with a 3 card flush on board).
Obviously a better scenario would of been if a scare card hit the river and then I bluffed him.
However, repping the 2 for rivered trips is pretty much the only card I can rep. I will continue to float the flop with nothing, 2nd or 3rd pair and see where it takes me.
Thus I quite like to see opponents 1 or 2 barrelling and then checking the turn or river, providing me with a bluffing opportunity in position.
I think the more the board bricks out.. the higher the bet. Thus why I decided to go for the ultimate - "2x the potsize bet" on the bricked river.
I found this link... read away
http://www.darkenedpoker.com/blog/?p=570
BTW - I am pretty confident that my opponents pain zone applies to the newbs fold rate graph - and not the experienced players one
Afterall, remember - I was only playing 10/25c NLHE and most of these guys are rocks.
I think the real competition starts at 25/50c for me.
Better players go by reads, not just by the bet they are facing. On the other hand, noobs go by bet sizes and not by reads. (illustrated by the graphs in that URL i provided above).