Re: Blocking bets
In short: a blocking bet is a relatively cheap way of finding out if you're beat when you don't have a good read yet. If the size is perfect, your opponent will only raise with better hands, and will still call worse hands.
On the other hand, say that when you lead 2/3 pot, and your opponent would never call worse hands, but always raise better hands (to which you fold) - you'd rather not bet, but check/call if he potbet-bluffs often enough (sorry no time right now to equate the frequency he needs to bluff with a potbet), or bet a different amount.
James explained the situation where a blocking bet can be fit pretty well. It does not work well vs. crazy opponents who become passive with a bet, but will pot a wide range of hands if checked to. You want those players to bluff crazy. You just need the guts to call their crazy bets, along with the ability to read his bet and the board well enough to determine the likeliness of his bluff.
Inducing bluffs with weak blocking bets is indeed great.
Marnix
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