[foxxxer]

I also bluff rarely, as I normally play against weak enough competition that bluffing isn't profitable. But when a big pot arises, sometimes I can't help myself.

Here's a hand from the 2-4 NL game at Foxwoods:

I'm BB with Qd-7d. UTG posts a straddle for no real reason, and he's not been playing wildly at all. Three callers, so I call, and UTG raises it to $53 total. Two limpers call, so I decide to call for whatever reason. Flop comes J-10-4 rainbow. SB checks, I think for a while, check, and the raiser fires $100 into the ~$220 pot. Two folds to me, and I go in the tank, thinking how I can steal this. I give him a look, tell him he either has "what I think he has, or what I don't want him to have"... and call. Turn is a blank 2, and I fairly quickly say "$250". I haven't even put my chips into the pot yet when he angrily flings his cards across the table, revealing what I thought: A-K.

Of course, I can't flip my cards over fast enough, and the guy tells me what a "stupid play" it was.