How To Read a Bluff
Playing offline or online poker? These tips are actually more specific to offline poker players, but online casino fans can still catch a tip or two for their own future reference. Learning to read a bluff can be an art form and takes a long time to master. Here’s some tips that may help. If you have any tips that aren’t listed here, please send us feedback and share the wealth!BTW, it is important to recognize and understand that video poker online is a completely different kettle of fish in the poker gambling world. Whether online gambling or offline.
| The Bluff |
What You Should Do |
| He holds his cards loosely in one hand. This suggests that people who hold their cards loosely plan to fold. However, serious players know this and sometimes they will use this tactic as a bluff. |
If you have a strong hand and other players are folding, try to entice the remaining players to stay in by acting uncertain. |
| He makes a big bet with a stack of small chips rather than a few large ones. This suggests that players who hoard the higher domination chips, so when a player calls or raises with a bunch of small chips, it suggests a lack of confidence. |
Raise him with a big chip and you’ll likely bluff him out. |
| He makes a quick call with no raise. This suggests that he has a good, solid hand and is trying to keep people in the round and ‘slow play’ before he makes a move. |
If you have a bad hand you’d better get out as soon as possible or try to bluff him into folding. If you have a good hand try and get him into throwing in more money. |
| Rechecks his whole hand after a new card. This suggests in general that he is holding an ambiguous card. |
Try to analyze what triggered the peek, so that if he isn’t bluffing, you can make a good guess at his hand. |
| He makes a big bet after a long pause. This suggests that a person who bluffs doesn’t want to suggest uncertainty – he wants to appear confident. The long pause is designed to deceive. He is probably trying to disguise a great hand. |
Fold, unless you are sitting on a sure thing. |
| He holds his bet in his hand before it is his turn. This suggests: for the inexperienced player, it means he’s eager and has a good hand. But once in a while, even an inexperienced player will get impatient when he sees a chance to make up for previous losses. |
Be careful. This is probably one of those high loss games (for someone). |
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