What are good bluffing techniques?

Question

any good ideas?

Answer 1

Try these guides:

http://pokerworks.com/article-498.html

http://pokerworks.com/article-318.html

Answer 2

Get familiar with the basic bluffs; like stealing the blinds, continuations bets and semi-bluffs.

Generally speaking, bluffs should tell a story and it should make sense. There is no point suddenly making a wild huge raise on the river and hoping for a fold. But if you have shown strength from pre-flop to the river, there is already alot of doubt in the other guys mind.

Answer 3

check this link

http://www.expss.com/poker/bluffing.htm

Its too long for me to copy paste here.  Good luck and see you on the felt!

Answer 4

The best bluffing technique is to be known as a tight player.  If you are always showing down good hands, a decent poker player is going to respect your play.  If you are in every pot, anyone with anything is going to look you up.  With that being said, there are no two games (groups of people) that are the same.  Take time, observe people, look at people who are behind you before you act (people look at their cards as soon as they get them and cut out their chips before it is time to act).  Get to know the styles of play at your table.   Your possition in the hand is important too.  Bluffing in early possition pre-flop in flop games...(yes there are other forms of poker that dont use flops) is dangerous.   As the saying goes, you play your opponents as much as you play your cards.  Never attempt to bluff a fish.......(calling station, etc)

By you asking the question, I am going to assume you are rather new at the game.  With that being said, I would suggest that your attempts at bluffing are going to cost you more than you gain in the long term.  Get used to the game, learn it and play straight forward basic poker.  In time, you will get the feel when a bluff is appropriate. One other important fact, don't vary your bets, or vary them every time...lol.  Standard betting then a strange bet is normally a tell.  A huge over bet (common mistake for a novice) or a little one bet raise (also common mistake for a novice)  are dead give aways to what you are holding depending on how you normally bet.    

Also ring games and tourneys are very different.  Betting in a ring game is typically higher and looser through out the game, while in tourneys it changes as blinds go up and antes kick in.  And, by the way, I play alot in the North florida card rooms and in Biloxi and New Orleans a good bit too, if  you are ever there, look for a mid 40's guy with long hair and a beard, come sit at my table and maybe (for the cost of a few pots) I can teach you a thing or two. lol  Good luck and may all your cards be aces (unless you are playing split pot games).

Answer 5

LuckyLove is right, you need to tell a coherent story.  But simply showing strength from pre-flop to river isn't the only way.  Suppose you smooth called a raise pre-flop, checked and called the flop, but then check-raised the turn when a third suited card hit.  In this case you're representing a flush that you were chasing for as cheap as possible.  In this case you're trying to work scare cards to your advantage, although you still need to hit them as well.  This is the third level of poker, namely "what does my opponent THINK I have?"

Another thing to be aware of are the tells you give off when bluffing.  Does your body hunch in on itself after betting?  Are you louder or more aggressive than normal?  Are you flinging in chips instead of placing them like you do when you have a real hand?  All of these signs can convince a skilled opponent to call you with bottom pair!  Telling a story isn't enough, your body language needs to back you up.  I would read Caro's "Book of Poker Tells" and "Read 'em and Reap" for a good lesson in what your body is doing when you bluff.  Then you can work to eliminate these tells.

Finally, there are many, many times where a bluff simply isn't worth the bother.  I personally think it's the most overused aspect of the game.  I once saw a guy at a casino limp into the pot from late position when I was the BB.  SB folded, it was him and me.  I hit middle pair on the flop, threw out a feeler bet, and he raised me all in!  This was a $20 tournament, but we were still pretty early into it.  I folded, and he showed an 83o garbage hand while smirking at me.  Ten minutes later he was gone, when another player hit a boat on the turn and this guy tried to represent he had at least trips.  And for what?  A couple of blinds worth of bets?  The payoff wasn't worth the risk.  If you're going to bluff you should be bluffing at pots that are worth winning.  Trying to steal blinds early on is pointless.  Cultivate a tight image, and then you can use that to take a pot that really matters by bluffing into people who think you wouldn't be in the hand unless you had a monster.

I once made it to the final table of a 90 person s'n'g without bluffing a single time.  I'm dead serious.  If I had the cards I bet, if I was beat I folded.  There will be times where you simply shouldn't bluff.  Learn to recognize them, as perhaps the most important bluffing technique is knowing when NOT to bluff.