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Sng\'s and Bluffing
For those who play the 33s and lower....
Maybe I'm the only one, but is anyone else choosing to bluff in the early game? Everyone here talks about tight play here early, and its usually the best route. However, sometimes you can limp into a pot with one or 2 early callers and either: -Call early weak bets, like 20-30% pot bets, to take the pot away on the turn -Make small bets after everyone has checked, and then make a large bet after the field has checked again on the turn, and take the pot. There are other specific situations, but it seems that the lesser, non-maniac players, fall into betting patterns that often gives away the fact that they have a weak hand, and that they can be pushed off of it. Obviously, there's other times when a player calls your raises, and larger bets, and there's no point in trying to push a maniac off of a hand (in this case, you're usually way ahead - point being, not a place to bluff). Sometimes, I'm wrong, and down to 650 chips in Level 1 or 2, but usually I can get my chips to 900-1000 and have a far better chance of making the money. Anyone else do this at 33s (Party for me) and below, or is everyone doing the strict ABC thing? |
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Re: Sng\'s and Bluffing
I also like to make these plays to push players off hands but the problem with it is that they might "just call." At this early stage of the game you don't have enough info about your opponents to know if they will "just call" or if they are strong enough to lay it down. This is why we recommend tight play early.
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Re: Sng\'s and Bluffing
If I had to blame one thing for my poor performance this past week, I'd blame exactly what you just said.
I used to consider myself disciplined. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] |
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Re: Sng\'s and Bluffing
I can't possibly play 8 tables and still gain enough information to make reads on who is capable of being bluffed off a hand, and who is not. And, since most of the players can't, it doesn't make sense for me to bluff.
I would definitely try to make some plays like you describe if I were playing one table at a time. |
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yea, I'd rather 10-table then squeeze out every little pot I can pick up. Better for the ole hourly rate.
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Re: Sng\'s and Bluffing
My FPS and bluff factor are the two biggest leaks I have in the low limit SNGs
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Re: Sng\'s and Bluffing
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I can't possibly play 8 tables and still gain enough information to make reads on who is capable of being bluffed off a hand, and who is not. [/ QUOTE ] Get Poker Ace HUD |
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Re: Sng\'s and Bluffing
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[ QUOTE ] I can't possibly play 8 tables and still gain enough information to make reads on who is capable of being bluffed off a hand, and who is not. [/ QUOTE ] Get Poker Ace HUD [/ QUOTE ] dont get me wrong, i use pokerace and think its great, but if you think that youre gaining reliable information which you can use to make bluffs for all your chips (which would be necessary considering the resulting pot size of the OPs hypotheticals), youre just wrong. we're talking about the early levels of an SNG here. so maybe, tops, you'll have 20 hands on a villian? no way is that information reliable enough for you to make any decisions based on it. |
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Re: Sng\'s and Bluffing
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Call early weak bets, like 20-30% pot bets, to take the pot away on the turn [/ QUOTE ] i think this might be the problem with your argument, as folks in the 11s/22s (and i imagine 33s) will not fold if they feel that they have a hand. it doesn't have to be the nuts, but they will call down a ton. [ QUOTE ] fall into betting patterns that often gives away the fact that they have a weak hand [/ QUOTE ] the thing about this is that people love to trap in these games. they think c/c and then c/r'ing is the most novel thing since sliced bread, so be careful assuming you're way ahead. everything gets slowplayed. i don't mean to be so conservative about all this, but there's really no need to deviate from the plan too much. bluff more around the bubble, steal people's blinds as the tighties try to get ITM, etc etc. low limit STTs are beatable with a mechanical, formulaic approach -- why FPS it up? [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] |
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low limit STTs are beatable with a mechanical, formulaic approach -- why FPS it up? [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] [/ QUOTE ] yeah. that, combined with what the other guy said about making those types of reads while multitabling, is reason enough for me to pretty much stick to ABC play. |
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