the second reason why you could bet is to bluff, i.e. to make your opponent fold a better hand.

Again let`s look at some examples.

Let`s say you raise preflop with 78s, you get one caller, and the flop comes K 6 2 rainbow. Your opponent checks. Its very unlikely that you have the best hand, you only beat unpaired cards between 6 and 2, and its not likely your opponent called your preflop raise with these hands.

If you bet (this bet is known as a 'continuation bet'), you`re opponent will probably fold a lot of hands that beat you, unpaired cards between 6 and K like 78-QJ, A high, pocket 33s-55s and against a tight opponent maybe even pocket 77s or 88s.

Another example is the semi-bluff. A semi-bluff is a bluff with a hand thats unlikely to be the best hand but has a lot of outs to improve to the best hand. Let`s say you have Th9h and you call a raise preflop. The flop comes Kh8h2x. Your opponent bets and you raise. Again, your opponent will probably fold a lot of hands that beat your hand, hands like A high, pocket 99s through QQs or an 8.

When you think about bluffing you should always ask yourself: will my opponent fold a lot of better hands? If the answer is no, you shouldn`t bluff.


This is the second part of the "reasons to bet" post.
Here the first part: Reasons to bet I:Valuebetting

Nice work!

Yeah very interesting, I never really bluff much I should probably start doing that

its important youre position and youre chipcount ,to bluff .when youre the leader they will fold faster

I noticed that 2, when you`re the chipleader you can really bully the table in MTTs

i usually only bluff on the cutoff or dealer positions, if i'm only facing limpers, i understand this is the norm but since i'm a tight player, my table image helps me in this case.

well it depends. position, size of the pot, number of players involved.

i only do it if the pot is near 10bb, there are one oe two players involved and i'm the last to act.

The only times i bfreak those rules, is against limpers , i'm on the bb and the flop is rags.

all part of the game! play the player not the hand =D

not good to bulff everytime....

True, but my big money make on this way

did u know somethink about overbet the river a lot of players use that and 75% that s work ...

will my opponent fold a lot of better hands?

yes we bluff to make our opponents fold the better hand. We could be also be semi-bluffing on a draw

thankx 4 the info

We need more of these.

Good article. Simple, concise and to the point. Kudos

Japmaster, will you make more of these. They are quite good.

check your opponent range before to bluff.At some tables you will have a lot of call after your bluff