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When you sit down at a poker table, the
goal is to win. You want to win all the
hands and all the money, whether you
will ever admit this or not. There may
be time during the game where you are
forced to make decisions without having
the best hand in the world. Of course,
it is an essential part of the game for
you to perfect to win. It is just like
covering all the bases during the lie
for that afternoon out of the office and
you must know the success of doing so
before you ever attempt it.
All skill levels of poker players know that it is not in their
better interests to attempt to bluff
every hand. Attempting to buy out, or
bluff, more than one player at the table
at the same time is never a good thing
for you. As they correspond with one
another, as the number of players for
that hand increase, the number of cards
for you to lose by increases as well.
This translates into a decrease that
someone will not have a better hand then
you and be willing to play those cards
against yours. As the number of players
that you are attempting to bluff
increases, the number decreases for them
to have a hand that cannot beat you. You
should always be worried about those
left in the hands that you bluff because
they can have tremendously good hands,
or they could be those that will keep
paying what you ask because they believe
that you have nothing.
Those that are left in the hand that you bluff are for the
"tells". Think for a brief moment that
you are bluffing two players at the same
time. You take a peek at the pot size
and think about what you know of the
betting habits of the other players and
ration your ability to succeed at this
as that they will buy in one in ever
three bluffs. You find that big pot
with a mediocre hand and realize that
you have a one in four chance of winning
this hand.
This logic is somewhat flawed because there is something very
critical that was not taken into account
during this whole process. Not every
player will fold to a bluff on the same
hand if there is more than one player in
that hand. They may fold an average of
one in four hands, but what are the
chances that they are both going to do
on the same hand? You might have better
odds of being struck by lightning on a
sunny day.
Those situations that appear to be
extreme ones only should be the case to
use this bluff, especially if it is more
than two players. There are rare,
extreme situations where you might
attempt at being a kamikaze player and
feel that you can succeed in bluffing
more than one player in the same hand,
please do not let this deter you. This
article is only a word of advice and
should not be taken as an expert guide.
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