Is this type of move part of your game?

[Scuba Chuck]

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the most important thing I've noticed is that it has to be 4-5 people/bubble time.

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There's a 2nd one, which is just as important, IMO. And that is villain's stack size. He can't be pot committed with his bet, or even near pot committed. You're not knocking him off a 6, which is probably what he has (if he's tied himself to the pot that is).

[unfrgvn]

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Why is the SB pot committed? He has almost 2100 left.

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He has 600 invested wih a little over 600 to call with 2 cards to come. The fact that he has 2100 left should HELP the decision to call as it won't cripple him. This is so obvious to me.

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Well, it's 835 to call to win 2035. He is getting good pot odds, but his hand is probably not that much better than ours. What hand is he just completing in the SB, provided he's not trapping, that he wants to get that involved with? Tough to call here with Q high, even getting 2.4-1.

[Gramps]

In general, pushing over an overbet is probably not the place to make this play. You'll get a lot of "embarassed/fu calls" from hands that probably shouldn't be calling, but are a huge favorite against yours.

[fnord_too]

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I thought post-oak bluff was total bluff with no hand or outs. I'll have to change that to just a re-bluff I guess.

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NONONONONONONO!!! That's a stone bluff! Mike Sexton would be so disapointed [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

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If this is a $22-$55, I like the play more. So to answer your question, I would only use it against players I thought were mediocre; I'm scared of good, solid players overbet-trapping with a 9, and I'm scared of complete donks calling with crap/having a 9 and giving no thought to bet sizes --> relation to the pot.

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I used to make those kind of plays all of the time. Until I started getting caught way too much. Now I only do it once in a while.

[Deuce2High]

For sngs this is pretty bad.

[Bigwig]

Perhaps this has already been mentioned, but:

1) I don't like pulling this bluff into a big stack. There are far too many players who will call you.

2) I don't like the bluff on a paired board. There is a psychological trigger in players that always seems to tell them that you don't have a pair if the board is paired. This is why I hesitate to continuation bet automatically with hands like AQ, AK, or KQ into paired flops.

[schwza]

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Perhaps this has already been mentioned, but:

1) I don't like pulling this bluff into a big stack. There are far too many players who will call you.

2) I don't like the bluff on a paired board. There is a psychological trigger in players that always seems to tell them that you don't have a pair if the board is paired. This is why I hesitate to continuation bet automatically with hands like AQ, AK, or KQ into paired flops.

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interesting. when i played 6max nl i stole very often on raggedy paired flops, especially from the blinds. it was a gold mine.

i will say it makes people a lot more willing to say "my 55 is the nuts."

[durron597]

A lot of good responses in this thread. Too many to respond to. But I want to respond to this one-

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I feel like, at the lower levels against donks, you're getting called too often with hands like 33 and AJ to make it +EV (although even then, it might be +EV, but marginally so). A donkey open-complete can mean anything, IMO - I'm not surprised if this play gets called by a donk AK-A10 or a mid/low pocket pair.

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This was a Stars $27. I feel like by level 5 a lot of the time you can have a read strong enough to at least have some idea whether a play like this would work. I had an idea of what the probability he was trapping me with a 9 - very small. Pocket pair - very small. 6 - possible from preflop, not possible from post flop. I really thought I was up against no pair here a huge (>90% of the time) against this opponent in this hand.

Not all opponents are created equal. Remember that, if you don't it will prevent you from using tools that work in some situations and not in others.