Meh now that you fixed the hand (for other people - he wrote it as AQ9 flop at first hence the posts above) i probably just call down most of the times.
Is there a sufficiently small kicker that you would consider turning a pair of aces into a bluff at some point in the hand? My sense is that player would play AK this way.
Now that the flop has changed from a 9 to an 8 I’d like to change my vote to just a call.
I wouldn’t turn my ace into a bluff vs this guy who clearly doesn’t know what he is doing. If he somehow has AK I wouldn’t count on him folding it.
You can change your vote. Click on show vote and pick a different option.
Is there a reason you post a player’s ethnicity?
I know I underbluff. That might be the correct exploit against my local player pool, which has a lot of players who tend to be passive and trappy and miss a lot of bets with strong non-nut hands.
I’m fairly certain one of my many leaks is failing to turn hands with showdown value into bluffs unless there is an obvious scare card. I’m just trying to figure out when I am supposed to do that.
Yes
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Oh god lets not do the racial profiling debate here.
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No. You have seen 0 hands of him and he saw 0 hands of yours. You cant talk about exploits and stuff at your local casino and apply them to a zero history random.
In essence, there is precisely 0% chance that your major leak is not turning enough top pair into bluffs in small pots vs randoms with no history at live low stakes .
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What is the racial profiling debate wrt poker? Is there any merit in it?
I think that the really good players will just sense weakness and attack and make a big bet knowing that their opponent is afraid in this spot. I don’t really have the instincts for making those sorts of bets and I probably rely too much on having the relevant blockers in my hand to make bluffs even though I believe they are weak. And I probably have too high of a threshold for my certainly that they are weak.
There is yes. But opening it up will lead to a silly debate
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I am open to doing it in a separate thread.
I’m calling turn, raising river for value against that lol 30 bet. Fold to a reraise
yes, now stop.
Villain ended up having AT. With a weaker hand, I think I should be considering turning my hand into a bluff if I read his bet-sizing as capping his range at one pair, but I felt my hand was too good to do that,. Maybe I should be making big bluffs anytime I think he can’t call even if I’m not making him fold very many hands that beat me to set up someone calling me light later in the game because they feel I am pushing them around.
I’m literally never bluffing this type of board against an unknown.
Sucks you ran into one of the very few hands you don’t beat
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I think I don’t pull the trigger on a bluff here against a known player often enough. I’m fine with not raising, although I think there were bet sizing and physical tells to suggest he might not call a raise. I think I require too much information to classify someone as other than an unknown.
As I try to play more tournament poker, I think I need to develop my ability to exploit population tendencies and to make moves with less certain reads.
You’re fine not bluffing here. Donks don’t like to do small donk leads and then fold, especially on dry boards. Save your money for better bluff spots.
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If you are trying to bluff randoms off tpgk in 2-5 you are approaching it wrong.
There’s def merit to bluffing recs off weak hands but this is a bad example
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