Blocking bets

[kagame]

sometimes making a blocking bet with an ace high whiffed draw will get a weak player who is bluffing to fold, they think youre inducing another bluff and get so disgusted they give up :-)

contrary to this, if you have a good enough read on a tough aggressve opponent who will raise these bets, they can be a great bluff inducer

[JAP]

bump
to see if anyone has anything else to say about it

[James282]

At 10-20, it's usually a decent play to do this when you have a decent hand when a flush draw gets there. i.e. you have and overpair or top pair top kicker and are having trouble putting your opponent on a hand(maybe an overpair, maybe a worse pair, maybe top pair bad kicker, maybe the flush) but he is the type to really put you to the test when scary draws get there. People vastly overestimate how often people bluff-raise the river all in or value-raise the river all in with worse hands than a hand like tptk. Use this play and Have several incomes of USD 100 every weeks.
winning money to want to thank me,
James

[JAP]

ok i'll try that! What a superior!
Henric

[Marnixvdb]

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