WHat do you look like when you bluff?

[smartalecc5]

Like, to me it seems so obvious when I bluff ( well obviously!!! /images/graemlins/smirk.gif) but do you stare straight at your opponent or do u try to be your nomral self?

is it the most important just to be routine in every bet that you make?

[CountDuckula]

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Like, to me it seems so obvious when I bluff ( well obviously!!! /images/graemlins/smirk.gif) but do you stare straight at your opponent or do u try to be your nomral self?

is it the most important just to be routine in every bet that you make?

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Yes. Any difference in your demeanor can tip your opponents off in some way or another. It's difficult to maintain enough control to allow differences to mean different things at different times; the safest thing to do is to be consistent, whether you're holding the nuts or bluffing like crazy.

[RydenStoompala]

I barf an entire beer through my nose, my eyes turn red and I drool. Other than that, not a chance you'll get a read on me.

[Lawrence Ng]

I usually show both my cards...errr..wait...that's not a good idea is it? /images/graemlins/wink.gif

Honestly, I do something different everytime. Sometimes I just sit with a straight face, sometimes I look at my opponent, sometimes I giggle, sometimes I get off my chair and do the Kevin McBride thing, sometimes I yap. I just like to keep my opponent guessing.

I don't believe that tells are all that reliable, more so believe your intution.

[nothumb]

Usually, I lean in closer to the screen and root for the guy to lay it down. Sometimes I make a stupid bluff into three or four players and lean back, disgusted with myself.

This is only half-joking. I bluff a lot less in live games as it is very rarely necessary or useful in the games I play. I semi-bluff sometimes but I do this with full confidence that my hand will get there /images/graemlins/smirk.gif so I probably look the same as I do with TPTK.

I am actually much quieter when I have a hand than when I don't on those rare occasions that I am bluffing or making a bizarre play.

NT

[bisonbison]

is it the most important just to be routine in every bet that you make?

Pretty much. You're just aiming for not caring. I mean, honestly, it's just one bet on one round of one hand in a very long line of bets, rounds and hands. Just imagine if you were playing for some infintesimal amount; would you care if someone called your bluff for three nano-chips? Prolly not. You'd rather they fold, but you've already made your decision and now they've got to make theirs, it's out of your hands, so why sweat it?

I think that's the ideal place to be.

[Michael Davis]

Yes, it is important that a bluff look like any other bet. Even players who are not observant pick up on "natural" tells.

When I bluff, I tend to look like porn actors right before they orgasm (O-face). Thankfully, I look like this all the time.

-Michael

[Toro]

In the past, after putting a bet out there on a bluff or semi-bluff I would feel uncomfortable if my opp stared at me looking for tells. I would try to look nonchalant but I never felt really confident about it. Then I decided to do this.

Instead of trying to look nonchalant or whatever, I focus right on the opps eyes like I'm looking for a tell on him. This is exactly the same thing I do when I have a good hand and I want to try and size up the opp in the event that he's going to play back at me.

Works pretty good, try it.

[BusterStacks]

Naked at my computer, same as when I'm not bluffing.

[Justin A]

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Instead of trying to look nonchalant or whatever, I focus right on the opps eyes like I'm looking for a tell on him. This is exactly the same thing I do when I have a good hand and I want to try and size up the opp in the event that he's going to play back at me.



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Careful with this. If anyone has read Caro's poker tells, they'll read this as a bluff. That's why sometimes when I have a good hand I'll burn holes in my opponent. Not always of course.

Justin A