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Lesson 3 - The Art of Bluffing
Are now ready for this
issue’s lesson!
As we proceed, we will
touch on the Topic of Bluffing. Remember that if you
were to play with your best hands only you would have
no action when you play.
In order to benefit
from bluffing in poker, you must know when and when
not to Bluff, as doing so can sometimes harm your
game. Bluffing in Poker is a simple matter of
mathematics coupled with an elementary understanding
of how to read Tells (opponents hands). Let’s say,
for example, that there is a $50 pot and you bet $5 to
try and steal the pot when you have basically no
chance of winning. This will give you 10-1 on your
money. As a result, you need a 10 – 1 chance of
winning the pot. Even if you are unsuccessful on the
tenth attempt, you will need an eleventh to break
even. I have given you an example of a worst-case
scenario in order to show that your bluffs need to be
successful only a small percentage of the time in
order to show a profit from bluffing. Even with the
above information, there are suggested guidelines to
follow when bluffing.
In our next lesson, we
will begin to discuss the dos and don’ts of Bluffing
and go through each point in detail.
Okay Class, we have
reached the end of this month's session. For Lesson
IV, be sure to read next month's edition of Pacific
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