The #1 Advanced Poker Bluffing Strategy (Skyrocketed My Winnings!)
Do you want to know how to make big successful bluffs in poker? In this week's new video I am going to teach you the advanced poker bluffing strategy that skyrocketed my results.
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These ARE the pots that matter. I implement this strategy regularly and it's the difference between winning and just breaking even.
Seems like people don't get why this is a winning play, because "don't bluff the fish". The reason why fish are hard to bluff is because they're too sticky with their pairs. But this board is very dry in terms of pairs and very wet in terms of draws, so when he calls you he's far more likely to have a draw than a pair. Also, if he has a T, I expect him to donk or even raise the flop, as we know fish think top pair is the nuts. If he has an 8 or better I expect him to raise the turn. So whe he goes check-call check-call, he should be folding the large majority of his range on this brick river because his range is literally just busted draws and small pairs like 7x and 66. And yes, even fish will fold their underpair to a 3 barrel, I found out consistency across multiple streets is the key, not to mention from a fish's point of view 66 is a lot weaker than Tx while from a reg's point of view they're the exact same strength as both only beat bluffs. "but your hand blocks draws" : True, but negligible. Good exploitative reads give you infinitely more information than the small edges you get from this kind of GTO logic, the two are orders of magnitude apart. We're not playing against this player type to gain small advantages, we're playing to use all the information available to nail their exact range, which sometimes is literally just one hand. So the reason why this is a winning play is because of the board. On this specific board, a fish will have way too many call/call/folds. Because on a low draw heavy board, they play too many draws too passively, and they donk or raise too much with their good made hands. So when they call 2 streets, it leaves their range incredibly weak on the river. Here their tendency to call with too many weak hands actually makes them more bluffable on the river, not less. The best defense against 3 barrels is to play tight passive : fit or fold on the flop, and never raise any value hand, so you get to the river with a very strong range. Recreationals do the exact opposite.
These are absolutely the pots that matter. Just yesterday at my local card room I ran a bluff towards the end of my session. I picked up 10d, 8d on the button, in a $1/2 NLHE game, eff stacks were about ~$700. Blinds were $1 & $2, and there was a straddle utg to $6. utg+1, mp, lj, hj all limp/call the $6. Cutoff raises to $40. His raise seemed kinda small, so I re-raised to $120, hoping to just scoop up the dead money right there. Everyone else folded, HJ called. Pot = $267 ($273 minus the $6 drop). Flop came 2h, 7c, 6c. Opponent checks, I led out for $115 ($465 behind). Opponent called. Pot is now $497. Turn came Jd. Opponent checks again, and I ripped it in for $465. Opponent tanked for maybe 30 seconds or so, shows me AQ off suit, and folds. I put both of my cards face down on the felt and told him he could pick one to see. He flips over the 10 and said, "ahh! Pocket 10's! nice hand!". I'm predominantly a live cash game player. I only ever play tournaments online if I play online at all. In live play, while we don't have the luxury of seeing HUD screens for our opponents, it's usually pretty easy to spot the rec players vs the regs/grinders. And all too often, rec players - regardless of their hand strength, are usually very uncomfortable playing their hands out of position unless they pick up AK, AA or KK. And when they pick those hands up, they usually get very happy and very ansy, giving away all kinds of live tells that they are super strong.
On the river. I like a 21 dollar bet apposed to a 17 dollar bet. In sales, the psychological difference between 19.99 and 20.00 is huge
Is it tho ?
I appreciate this video. I've put the importance of this kind of bluff together, but need to continue practicing it and better recognize this situation so as to be ready to pull the trigger...and pull the trigger. Thanks for the clear example.
This is the video ive been waiting for great content as always dude, keep it up
You're really good at breaking everything down and sticking straight to the points.thanks alot for the info bro
Thanks Bio appreciate the kind words!
I played against a guy with VPIP of 96 the other day. it was glorious. Guy was hitting showdowns with 10,3 offsuit.
You didn’t mention that some bad players with small stacks are more often than not willing to go all in after you bet with a bluff on the river. At least from my experience. You always have to read and play the player. Good vid 👍
Thanks for the analyses Nathan, actually was curious how you'd have played this out if yours and other players seats were swapped and they had position on you, how would that change your betting and bet sizing across rounds? Thanks
Love the analysis. Spot on. Already applying your position strategy and took down a cash home game. However. Isn’t it problematic having your auto top preset? Won’t your bankroll get away from you in a hurry if you aren’t careful? Keep it up. Love the channel.
Your tip for spotting rec. players is spot on about the buy-in amount. Sub'd
While I appreciate the advice. This is called 100% of the time with a small pair. This advice may have worked 10 years ago. But in microstakes they are ALL call stations. Maybe a Pot bet on river would turn them away. But 1/3 pot with a middling pair? That call button is on fire.
Agreed, no way the villain is folding any pair to this size of river bet. As you said the content is ten years out of date.
Very true. Especially with the people I play with online. Also if they check raise the turn, we are screwed in this scenario.
The only way I learned is the showdown. You have to slightly overbet around $1 over the pot the villian will fold if they don't have at least top pair. If they catch at least any 1 pair, They are calling! Top pair they will go all in!
Hi Nathan. I don't think that Ignition has the auto top up feature. If it does, I'd love to know how to activate it.
Have applied a lot of things from your videos and my bankroll has improved a lot over the past year. Thanks a lot for the amazing content 🙏
Glad my videos help!
thanku nathan for all the content! i am slowly improving
Thanks Tom, glad my vids are helping you!
I tend to not tripple barrel paired boards because villains are more likely to trap us rather than announce they have a strong hand with a raise because their thick value range of boats don’t need protection. Thoughts?
Agreed. I have consistently lost two pair to sets as well as straights, flushes and too often a full house to a pair on the board, especially painful when they river the pair.
Nicely played I must say you didn't teach me a little bit about how to spot a fish. thank you Yes and I would like to make a request I don't do this really that often but it's been told to me that in order to in order to crush on the the game poker no matter where or what you're playing the first thing you need to learn is to find out what the other players ranges are now to me that's seems pretty hard and how do you actually do that when everybody mucks their cards? I don't understand could you maybe perhaps sooner than later make a video on that thank you Black rain 79 you're awesome looking forward to watching more videos from you
Just won a tournament thanks for all the advice you give helped me a lot
Nice work Rose glad my vids are helping you!
Hey! Thanks for taking our feedback about the type of hands we wanted to see A good tip I learned here is think about time where your opponents might have a draw to a straight, like having the bottom end of it (5 6) or simply a jack in this situation, but you might have the draw to the nut straight and can get paid off big when their second or third nut straights hit at the same time as your nut straight, this is going on my notes!
11:47 question: why would a fish fold a JT on the river w two pair 10high? thats a quite a strong hand esp given that any draw wasnt hit. or am i mistaken. any insight is much appreciated
It’s a bs. Fish never throw away JT on this board; particularly not to a 42% pot river bet. 42% pot bet can force a drawing hand to fold only. Any Fish who called turn with a marginal made hand would called 42% pot river bet.
If they did like a minraise on the river would you continue with the bluff or just fold?
using such a small bet size, are you targeting ONLY hands like Kx or 3x? It's too small to get 7x (maybe) or Tx to fold.
Really enjoying your content …Does this or any of your videos apply to Live Games?? I play 1/2 early 2/5 NL.. thanks 🙏
5:50 you say recreational players don't fold straights and full houses. I agree on straights, but I would argue that, very rarely solid players/pros are folding full house hands. Some hands you just aren't folding even at the highest level of poker.
I’ve had to back off on bluffing because I showed too many bluffs. Now I have to play tight. How do I get back to bluffing and winning those hands?
My rec opponents always turn 8-7 OS in these hands and then they check raise all-in on the flop and I can't call... 8-7 is a very limpable hand.
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I problem is when bluffing these situations someone ends up with a pair theyre willing to bet on or something so i lose a bunch of money trying to bet people who are willing to risk it for small hands
is there a way to play cash poker here in the states?
what we are doing when we sitting out of position sb or bb and before uss we have 1 or 2 or 3 limpers with hand like 89s 67s J10s Q10s K10s KJ KQ 22-66? if i isolate big size one of them call and i have big pot and dont know what to do post flop, when small size isolate they call all
KJ KQ iso, others limp
Woulda been sick if they had something like K8 and had trip 8s on the turn and were slow playing until river
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Shouldn't the limper be check raising the flop or turn a lot here since he has a range advantage and most raising hands are either air or just an overpair?
Recs don't study GTO
I play 2nl so I rarely bluff and yes you can bluff in 2nl because sometimes it works. I only bluff against tight players
Seat four had a PFR of 28 though .. what's your PFR usually around, BlackRain? Thanks. ..
The PFR isn’t a particularly important stat on its own. It’s the difference between the VPIP and the PFR that matters. A 28 PFR seems fine to me when you’re playing a generally loose game, but the fact that the VPIP is so high, is what identifies him as a fish as he’s only raising about half the time. It allows you to narrow their range depending on whether they call or raise pre-flop.
@@mick727xd Thanks I understand that :) ..
Would you ever play the same way if the player in this example had position on you?
Try to bluff a 55/ 28 off of that board is pure suicide. No need to bluff those kind of players.
Yeah, exactly. They’re fish, make an exploitative adjustment and heavily favor value bets against them. Don’t try to bluff the player that as he says calls too much. That’s just saying I don’t care about my bankroll
What if he raised at any point in the hand?
If he had two pair or better on the flop or trips or better on turn, he would have raised. You block straight and qj-t a bit too. His most likely hands are overcards + gustshot, sometimes 99, 66 and a ten. It's ambitious to try to get him off a 10 unless you bomb 150% pot, but even then a rec will still call a lot. He is folding everything else. That's why no need to bet big indeed. Sucks if we get looked up by 99 because it was cheap but that is the only hand.
this video made me understand how much of a fish i am :D
I play this same way but will use a bigger sizing on the river and get called by ace high :( do you offer coaching?
lol we only remember when we get called. Overbetting or large bet size is also better if you have nut advantage.
The fish checked the river, indicating a weak holding. There is no need for you to bet big there. If he would have bet the river and you want to take down the pot with a bluff, then you have to use a bigger sizing to make him fold. This will work if you´re labeled as a tag but will probably not work if you´re labeled a lag.
Sorry I don't coach anymore.
Impressive. You want 65, Gutshots and Flushdraws to fold on the turn? 🤔 Why? Cause they have equity? Yes you mentioned a checkback is also fine. But you missed the reason for. Also you didn't shared the reason why you go big on the turn and relatively small on the river? So pls explain me, why it makes sence vs a rec. player to go big on a paired turn vs some potentially weaker draws with the goal to fold out equity instead of charging him for the exact same reason AND than go way smaller on one of the biggest river bricks possible, where u only fold out bricked draws and some ace highs or small pockets? Could u please also explain to me why turn and river sizings still fit together and make a lot of sence for a rec. Player that he might fold now a Ten or Seven?
To represent strength so you can be more believable on the river
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You want flush draws to fold on the turn because they can easily be ahead of you and even if they aren’t they can have huge equity vs you. Even 54ss has 39%. I’m never too disappointed when a villain folds with 39% equity. It also removes the risk of the 9 of spades landing on the river giving us the straight but them a flush.
The auto top up feature in pokerstars doesn’t work with me 😂😂, so be careful with conclusions 😉
Why didn't you put them at 2 pair or even trip 8's after the turn? Your HUD says they aren't an aggressive player and as a fish they very well could have just been a loose cannon
Should one be raising with marginal stuff like QJoff if you opponent has a low VPIP and a low PFA.
I don't think bluffing with 40% of pot size is advanced bluff in this particular hand. A8 is not going to fold, nor top pair high kicker. So, only missed flush/straight draws would be subject of bluff, which is not enough for a guarantee.
What are some online poker sites do you recommend?
online poker?? The best one is the one you do not play.
Love your videos but I hope you can clear something up for me, Ive been reading the micro stakes playbook and in that book, you suggest that you should avoid bluffing 'whales' as they will call with any piece of the board. But right here you're triple barrelling as a complete bluff against that type of opponent. What's different about this situation that constitutes a potential bluff against this player type? Thanks in advance and keep making great content for lower stakes players!
The difference here is that you have the nut advantage to the nut straight draw amongst other outs, and excellent implied odds on a player who will call. The river made it a brick and there was no raise on the turn (see beluga theorem), so the river is a decent spot to bluff. Also mentioned is a check back on the turn, which I would be more inclined to do tbh. I think table image helps here as well, if you sit tight and are winning with made hands then that increases your fold equity as well.
@@oinkgrr If you check behind on the Turn the recreational player always call u with A high or mid value on the river.Thus, bluff on the river is not profitable with those type of players IMHO. As played, i will play like on the video.
Glad my book is helping Jacob! I generally do avoid bluffing the whales but sometimes I will mix them in, especially when I have very little showdown value, like in this hand. I should have made that more clear in the video though, this is NOT my typical play against them. It's just one hand :)
@@BlackRain79Poker thank you for clearing that up, that makes a lot more sense. I would love to see a video in the future from you talking about when is best to just fold your hand in different spots. After reading your book, I smashed 1c/2c but now I've moved up to 2c/5c, I've become more of break even player and I think it's because I'm making bad calls so would love to know your thoughts! And again, thank you for all the content/books you've made so far
I try to purposely make people think I'm a recreational until BAM I wasn't
This is not ADVANCED strategy. You just showed one example of a bluff where the villain probably folded a missed draw.
He tanked before folding. Why would he tank with a missed draw?
@@FefeLeVrai He likely chased a king high or ace high flush draw and contemplating a call with either King or Ace high, or ... he was posturing with a fake tank fold to save face with a busted straight draw (quite common) which is my assumption there.
@@FefeLeVrai My point was that this was nothing more than a regular bluff. Not a Advanced play.
@@sloveglot2134 If you don't think it's an advanced play it means you don't undersand it. Any maniac can mindlessly 3 barrel his gutshot. What's advanced is understanding why it's a winning play to do it against a recreational on this board while it would be a losing play on another type of board.
Explain why hes tripple barelled with J spade? Blocking flush and straight draws isnt good
The actualhand starts at 4:30
I like your videos. However I don’t agree with whoever doesn’t have a full stack is considered a recreational player. I play on my mobile from time to time and there isn’t an auto top btn for the mobile app for borgata that is. So people might consider me as an recreational but I’m not.
Are you the voice actor of Android 16 from Dragon Ball?
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Your hand blocks too many draws. No need to run big bluffs vs fish imo
I don't use the autotop up just so people think I'm a rec player.
Passive table that is what you need...
I tried doing this with AhKs against a fish. Kept unloading the clip, they never folded and I was beat by a pair of 9s.
Did your fish have an Agression Factor of 3? Or was his AF < 1 (AKA calling station) ?
I have played online for ages..winning every year and have never used the auto top up....
Why not? You could be winning more if you did.
So... in many videos you specifically say out loud... DONT BLUSS THE FISH... why would you do this here?
Doesn't this flop favor the callers range? You have nut blockers to pull this bluff but it also nails his range. 8 on the turn favors him not you.
Who has the most trips = nut advantage, not range advantage. The 8 turn makes your opponent less likely to have a pair, which increases the value of many hands in your range like ace high and small pocket pairs.
Villain. Because hero only opening suited connectors. Villain is a fish and has nearly every 8 9 10 going. Probably down to 8 4 off etc
@@craigwoodcock3883 also recreational players have the mindset, I have two pair not folding. I think we can find better spots vs the fish and over bet when we have it vs bad players like that.
@@PatrickA1 yeah. Not worth running these bluffs vs 55 vpip players. Seems a bit resulst orientated to post this hand. J spades is probably the worst card to trip barrel with
How so? Hero has TT, 88, 77. Villain has a 27% PFR which is pretty high. So I’m guessing he’s not limp calling with those hands, he’d be raising instead. So hero has all the sets, villain has none.
I'm never a calling station, I want that rep. Because after I've established that rep at a table. I can then call pre, flop, and turn, and then re-raise big on the river. While inversely if flop the nuts against a loose aggressive player, it's check check check. Let them bet themselves broke. They're are unlimited ways to play Any hand. BUT NEVER GET CREATIVE WITH AMATEURS. it's unnecessary. Good luck all
"Could be looking to get stacked with 65" 😂
Aw yelich
If he called with K high would you change tables? 😂
"Don't bluff the fish!" You, in another video
I swear bluffing is fun.
No way this player type is calling a flop and turn bet and folding any weak made hand for 1/2 pot on the river. (Even a counterfeited 3 pair, lol!) The Only likely hands he folded were better high card holdings (K and Ace high). Hero was beating all other busted draws. You can’t bluff those player types off anything besides their nothing’s
That said there were a lot of busted draws he loses to, targeting the failed suited A hands makes some amount of sense here especially if you add in hands like AJ KJ that were sticking around for double over + gutshot.
True, but the whole point is that the majority of your opponent's range on this river is nothing, since this board has very few pairs and a lot of draws. What makes this play so profitable is that you get 2 barrels of value from your opponent's draws despite not having a hand. It's completely +EV even if he never folds a pair.
@@FefeLeVrai But that thinking is depeding on the assumation that villain exactly would play this way. Villain here is to be said to have an AF on 3. Not much information, but if you assume he will check call flop and turn with a draw, how often will he CR on the river? Even a recreational fish with some aggressive frequencies won't often check call out of position on flop and turn with just a draw and fold to a small river bet... . It worked out in this hand, but I don't think this is a clear +EV spot at all.
That advanced play would never work in the casino I play at because people will seriously call you down with J-7 and just like that, the big ringer would've lost to the biggest jackass at the table.
you could be in bad shape if a 9s appears
Bluffing more when i sense weekness
Tyr and bluff me next time I have a full house 😂😂😂😂😂
On the turn I would guess he has A8 or K8, 10J maybe. Everyone wants a nine. I don't think this is a good spot to bluff. And the whole rule about not bluffing weaker players...
.50/$1 stakes has recreational players!!! Lol. I play .1/.2 tables because I don’t have $100 to just gamble with. But I consider myself an average player. I make final table in low stake tournaments, and win a few $$ here and there on cash games. Nothing serious I guess. I’m up to $50 from $14 and have been hovering around there.
Dont bluff calling stations
Then he calls with ace 8 off lol
I lose no matter what I do
So are you saying the rec player did a fold why , he had a low pair. i thin you are giving bad advice. 1.may be the player did not have and thing. of value with his hand. 2. Most likely if he had a pair, or a set, or face cards he or she would have been all in recreational player : will be all in befor the flop or at the Flop. he could have been becoming a good player and may be changing bad habits I know you like use a program status but that is a bad habit need to know how to play with your brain think quick. and know when this is a bad investment.
This video is just wow… what a Bad spot to bluff. Yes you have a draw to the nuts but this smashes their call range so much and as you said fish don’t fold, so why would you run a bluff when they probably call all three streets with bottom pairs. Also bad turn bet, that 8 is an awful card to bluff. A lot of made hands that call flop call turn as well.
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Too much useless yapping.
This guy is just hurt to watch.
You got very lucky. This play is suicide against this time of player. What are you representing? The opponent can literally can have an 8, 10, 7 or pocket pair and just think 'I have a hand therefore I call', in addition to the missed straights and flushes. This isn't advanced, you will lose more often than win doing this. You block very little and don't have great card removal. The best way to beat these players is wait until you have it and just value them to death. This isn't advanced, its more luck than skill. AA and KK are not playing this way on this board. Try this tactic against recs/fish continually and watch as you mostly lose pots to them.
I am actually thinking Nathan isn't really teaching, but making sure that he will always have rec. players at the tables by trying to balance out the vaild strategy advices on this platform
First you say that they will call down with any pair, then you say you wouldn't play AA or KK like this. You're contradicting yourself here, if they never fold any pair you should obviously always 3 barrel your overpairs for max value. In fact that's what the solver does even though a GTO opponent folds any 7 on the river. Solver is also bluffing river with QJ regardless of the suits.
@@FefeLeVrai No I'm not contradicting myself. Its unlikely they will fold any pair. AA and KK don't generally 3 barrel on this board because its not the best board for them. Both mutually exclusive facts that are generally both correct. There are quite a few hands here they could have that beat those overpairs. They are 2 streets of value at a minimum, 3 is very tough. A solvers input here can't be taken as gospel, unless it adjusts for the opponent not having any clue what GTO is or means, and adjusts for an opponent that has a decent chance of calling any pocket pair 55+ or any single pair they've hit on that board. I've played enough of these guys to know in the long run you will lose more money bluffing them then you will by just simply taking them to value town.
@@bc1sjw The strategy you give your opponent is to call down with way more hands than GTO, since GTO folds 55 and most 7x on the river. Then the strategy you're using yourself is to value bet less than GTO, since GTO 3 barrels overpairs. So the direction you're taking away from GTO is the exact opposite of the one you want to take here.
@@FefeLeVrai No its not. It sounds like your fairly new to poker or have little experience playing against this player type. Keep it simple and value bet them to death when you have it, blast multiple streets with air against them and set money on fire, it couldn't be easier. Consistently apply the tactic in this video against them and you will lose way more than you win. Save these types of plays for more experienced/skillful players.
Please get to the point- you make it very boring-you go around and around- 👨 man-I’m sleeping
I'm just wandering. Are most of the followers of this channel recs(ugh) or profs? None of them are fish for sure 🐼🦘🐊🐜