How to Learn to Read Playing Cards: Poker Bluffing (part 1)
Posted on March 29, 2008
Filed Under Poker Tips & Strategy
“The only way to get smarter is by playing a smarter opponent.”
Let’s get it started. Follow my advice and tips and you’ll get to know how to learn to read playing cards of your opponents over the table and bluff without batting an eyelid. The only question I want to ask you, “Are you good at lying?” or “Have you ever cheated?” If so, you’re welcome!
It’s quite natural that just about everybody has a chance to sift through a pile of poker manuals, sites, movies, etc. looking for a suitable strategy. I recommend you to stick to the rules and profound tips of smart poker gamers. And surely play smart gamers.
And by no means forget that you act the role on equal grounds. What am I talking about? You should obey the rules of the game. Don’t be a cardsharper, and never play foul. But use such ways as bluff, check-rising, slow play, speculate to bull or to bear and many more.
Bluff is likely the most popular action used in poker. Bluffing is the art of making other players believe that you’ve got a better hand than you really have. There’re two kinds of bluffing: semi-bluff and actually bluff.
A player uses semi-bluff, when he stakes in order to scare away an opponent. In this case the bluffer has a chance to make his cards better before a winning hand (like if one has in his possession a hole-ridden Straight or a low-order pair). And actually bluff is a stake, when a bluffer has practically no chance to win (the bluffer has at his disposal 5, 8, and on the table is A, K, J).
To bluff well, every poker gamer should take into consideration some factors:
• a number of players (the more opponents the more chances to win);
• types of players (tight gamers are easier to be cheated);
• your image at the table: having an image of a weak-tight player, you’ve got more chances to successfully bluff (don’t abuse your position!);
• a size of bank poker: the less the bank, the more expectancy of success;
• an opportunity to show a strong hand: if there’re 3-4 cards of one suit or 5 consecutive cards (Straight) on the table, therefore an opponent, probably, could throw a playing card of a higher order;
• position: it often happens to bluff in the last position, when every player says ‘check’;
• trade round-up: you’ve got very few chances to bluff
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