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Your opponent’s hand range

Your opponent’s hand range will consist mostly of flushes, sets and bluffs. He will never call with a bluff and will rarely call a raise with a set, so you only have to worry about extracting value from the flushes, with which he will probably call most raises.

You will rarely make these large over-bets,

You will rarely make these large over-bets, so you don’t have to balance them by making the same play with a bluff. In fact, you are making this play purely because you have a strong hand and know your opponent will not fold. While there are other spots on the river where you want to bluff your opponent, a smaller bluff will almost always do the job, making over-betting far from optimal when bluffing in tournaments. Against good, regular players, I would tend to make a more normal-sized raise, as they will quickly realize that my over-bet means I have the nuts. In the past I have taken this concept a bit too far, over-betting with hands that were quite strong but not the nuts. At least in my experience, players will only call these with hands that are almost the nuts. Because of this, pushing with a hand like 6-3 in the previous example would be suicide because my opponent will only call with better hands. In fact, raising with a weak flush on the river is usually a mistake in a tournament because you’ll only be called if you are beat, so I tend to reserve the over-bet on the river for my nut hands.