Tournament Strategies
After receiving pocket cards, you are immediately faced with a choice: play your cards and either raise or call the blinds, or fold.
Practice Matters
Finally, there is the pre-flop bluff.
Finally, there is the pre-flop bluff. Pretty much any time you raise pre-flop, unless you have a strong hand, it is a bluff at some level. When you raise 9-8s pre-flop, you are basically semi-bluffing. When you raise J-5 on the button, you are total bluffing, trying to pick up the blinds. When someone raises and you re-raise with A-4, you are total bluffing, because if he calls, you are usually behind and your main way of winning the pot will be to continue bluffing post-flop. If you re-raise with J-10s pre-flop, you are semi-bluffing, as your hand will find a way to win post-flop by making straights and flushes a decent amount of the time. If it doesn’t, you can still win the pot with a bluff.
As you can see, bluffing is a rather broad subject.
As you can see, bluffing is a rather broad subject. Throughout the text, you will see numerous other forms of bluffs that you can add to your arsenal. Just don’t get carried away with bluffing, as most of your profit will come from making your opponents think you are bluffing when you actually have a strong hand.