Time to get this started. I'll keep it short to start.
We all see the players who rant and rage about flushes and straights. If there is a player to make a note on or if you are lucky enough to have one on your table, it can be to your advantage to enter hands with position on this type of player.
The spots won't be abundant, but on a 2 to a straight or flush board or board that pairs the turn with middle or bottom pair. Let this opponent try to protect 1 pair then bluff when the scare card hits. Smooth call the raises until the card hits, to represent a chase.
It works better on subscription sites and freerolls than live because you get alot of players who think online is rigged against them.
Couple of important things to making it work and it won't always;
1) Use it only when the player is passive or slightly titlting, not super tilting.
2) Use it when the player has enough chips to fold to your bluff.
3) You have to bet as if you have it. NOT ALL IN! Make it suspisious. Look at 2 things, the pot size and the players stack size. Betting somewhere over half but not more than 3/4 of the smaller of the two seems like a good rule of thumb to me.
4) This is not going to work on good players often, but with a little practise you will find it is an effective bluff aginst the abundant new players, tight passive players and super haters!
5) You need to stay in position for the most part, it just makes it easier to dump if it goes bad. Also if the player checks the scare card, most times you have all the info you need right there.
If Players want to fill their heads with false fears, might as take advantage of it. There are plenty that will tell you that they are a sucker for this bluff through ranting blogs and table chat.
Another good place is at the end of tourney against tight players who's stats show that they are approaching their first finals, first wins etc. They just don't want to take the chance. Its not a bad bubble play against a rookie player at anytime really.
Even when you get caught in this one, on a weak table it will set up a great oppurtunity to get someones stack in easily when you have the legit hand, but I will throw in thought on the online reverse later.
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 01/02/2009 01:38AM by jontm.
