Re: Catching Bluffers
Having not read it, I don't know the context within which Sklansky is writing.
The way I understand poker, the tight player will have either a very strong hand or absolutely nothing for a river bet. The loose player could have the nuts, could be bluffing, could have a great many different hands in between.
With a hand whose only value is bluff-catching, you have a very mediocre holding, perhaps something as weak as ace-high in Texas hold em. An aggressive player may (wrongly) bet too many hands on the end from the perspective of being a bad value bet or may bet something like bottom pair, thinking that he is bluffing when he actually has the best hand vs. your ace-high.
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