2 TIPS On When To BLUFF In Poker!

[@PokerCoaching]

Do you think you bluff too much, too little or the perfect amount? 🤑

[@losyart]

I feel that on stakes im playing the bluff will only work when they have air cause most of my opponents arent able to fold even to multi-barrel bluffs

[@qazzaqstan]

I technically way over-bluff because my play group doesn’t weight pot odds enough, so there are boards I know I can get a fold from about half their range via a 1/2 to 2/3s sizing. In terms of what percentage of pots I bluff at I might be on the low side though.

[@alanevans7451]

Too little, though I think I bet my draws a healthy amount.

[@maxwelllittle5291]

If I bluffed the perfect amount I wouldn't still be at 0.01/0.02.

[@guillermoalvarez9400]

Probably not enough cause in the games I play in I can’t expect my opponents to be capable of making tight folds no matter how tight or loose I play myself. I give just enough action to make my ranges not totally be face up, but I find I lose to much trying to bluff sticky opponents off of anything but air

[@evanhaddad1960]

Love these short strategy videos with the sexy elevator music in the background, John. Thanks!

[@maxwelllittle5291]

" The opponent checks, we rip it all in, and the opponent calls with 7-2 and takes the pot"

[@Anonkontello]

If you can find me some tables where that would happen, please let me know. A player who mines for 2 pair until the river seems like my favorite guy to play against. Seriously though, embrace the fish. Be nice to them. They’re the ones who pay you.

[@guillermoalvarez9400]

Sometimes I feel ranges go out the window, and bluffing is predicated on your opponent’s stickiness and what they think of you. If they perceive you as overly aggressive, on tilt, etc a bluff will not work when it would have in another scenario. When I have a bad image, it becomes impossible to win pots without making a hand

[@jppagetoo]

I always pay attention to my own play and my table image. Most players, at the stakes I play, have no idea about ranges, they play their own two cards. People are calling stations at this level. You are more likely to get paid off on big bets with a made hand, than get folds with a big bluff. It's all related to how they think about me based on my table image, not my range vs theirs. That said... I find online players are attuned to ranges than live players are.

[@chrislarkin72]

Excellent video. Short, valuable, and easy for me to point to when discussing these types of spots with friends.

[@adrianoalves20]

Great format!

[@SheMystery1]

Nice graphics Jonathan, easy to watch

[@jjmohn9204]

Nice analysis & Thx once again Coache!

[@KenHollowayshow]

Can you do a video on how to tell when your opponent is slow-playing a premium made hand versus checking for free cards? Like if I'm betting AK on the button and the opponent flopped a low set... check calls all the way to the showdown.

[@Mr87penguin]

I really liked your way of explaining it. What advice would you give me for a beginner wanting to grow

[@founik]

Don’t forget the rule #1, guys. If all your bluffs are getting through and none of them gets called, you are probably not bluffing enough 🙂

[@guillermoalvarez9400]

What if you’re just picking all the right spots to pull a bluff against loose players

[@marioharris5944]

If you never get caught it means you've lost opportunity somewhere along the way. It's like a heat check. You won't know the maximum shots you could've hit in a row until you actually missed one.

[@gagfails4985]

your the man ,, awesome , like all your vids , you and blackrain 79.. 5 stars👌👌👌

[@deviongants3724]

Great vid learn alot keep them coming and thumbs up thx

[@chanoone7812]

Great content as always

[@PokerCoaching]

I appreciate it!

[@deviongants3724]

Great vid and thumbs up keep up the great work

[@malcolmwasher2308]

I love bluffing with 10 2 then showing and saying doyle would be proud 😂😂😂😂😂

[@chriswaddelljr1768]

Has anyone else ever bluffed with the nut blocker just to realize you’re at a fishy home game 😂

[@terencehill3972]

or called down because I unblock his natural bluffs…

[@carolinacambo]

Nut blockers still work at home games but only if you’re deep stacked as hell

[@andrewblawson]

This comment made me realize I don't know enough poker terminology.

[@bumblehoney7206]

I'm new to poker, but I was proud of a bluff I did the other day. I was calling the bets players made until a second four came out on the river. First four of a kind, I ended up with a stupid high bet just low enough that felt "off" because I knew the players remaining wouldn't believe I actually had anything based on how I'd been playing up to that point. Sure enough two folded, the third hesitated before matching me. Big win for my first game

[@Trust_but_Verify]

That's not a bluff though.

[@MrLuvmusl]

In the second hand, if we’re only full potting the flop with draws and made hands, how does the Q on the turn likely help us unless we hold exactly QQ. The hands you mentioned we could have are not consistent with the full pot flop bet…

[@Anonkontello]

It’s better for the possible range of hands that we can hold than the opponent’s range.

[@RickFleshmanCadence]

Excellent bluff coaching. What about when the turn pairs middle or bottom pair and it's heads up? Is it a good time to represent that you picked up middle or bottom set?

[@x4XaXi]

Nope. He stated it in the video that he will slow down if the turn pairs the board as it is better for the check-caller's range.

[@RickFleshmanCadence]

@@x4XaXi Thank you!

[@joemead8123]

Do you think it’s a good idea to sometime Lino utg with monster hands like AA Qq aks . That way story set the trap for someone to raise then you 3 get them ?

[@OBPrince]

Please make a strategy video on preflop ranges against LIMPERS!

[@moneymikz]

Is betting with a combo draw to the nuts and 2nd nuts even a bluff??

[@mikelb55]

how often do you bluff though? if youre going all in with j high ... when do you decide to bluff?

[@lazyamerican5724]

I ran a bluff and lost my grandads bonds. Way to go J Little

[@craigwhitby6106]

This might work at 5-10 but at 1/2 1/3 people aren’t thinking in ranges it’s hey know is 2 paint so it’s a premium and they only worried about hitting flop and getting sticky with 2nd pair

[@Anonkontello]

Then adjust. Bluff less into calling stations, and go way bigger with your value hands. You can’t always do the same thing all the time. If you play perfect GTO then you’re destined to make low win-rates forever. Be smart, you don’t have to be part of a hive mind that refuses to imagine what to do if a strategy doesn’t work instead of altering that strategy.

[@kineahora8736]

Deuce of spades isn’t a blank-you pick up a combo draw with an overcard. So a semibluff on the turn…you have 15 outs vs a Queen = 33% equity.

[@dennisje2925]

It feels if we blast Qj os. We are bluffing way too much. Love the concept of betting huge. I would have bet flop if I did have backdoor and turn when it was a spade and than going all in with all blank rivers Wait. We have cutshot on flop:) than I bet 2-3 flop 2/3 turn and pot river

[@the.tricky.outdoorsman]

Had A9 Heart suited from the big blind playing 1/3 NL. I raised to 15 the +1 and cut off players call Flop comes K, 5, Q two hearts and a club. Check to the CO who bets 25. I call +1 folds. Turns the 9 of clubs. I check, CO bets 35. I put him on top 2 or a set. The river is a 7 of clubs completing one of the flush draws. I check and CO bets 30. I check raise to 100 and he looks unhappy. I'd been playing pretty face up all night and he shows a set of queens and folds. He asks to see the flush and I show only the 9 of hearts.

[@guillermoalvarez9400]

That guy is too much of a scared nit, not 3 betting the QQ, betting way too small on each street, then folding just cause a backdoor flush comes in. I’d pay it off every time and just shrug if you got me. A straightforward player isn’t calling flop hoping to hit a back door flush. If you had AK of clubs you’d bet yourself after raising pre. Then if you do hit a draw on river you’re leading out afraid of a check back. Not a good line to take a bluff but even worse fold by opponent

[@the.tricky.outdoorsman]

@@guillermoalvarez9400 thanks for the advice. I'm still pretty green to the world of poker.

[@blazeron12]

Have you ever considered meetup games?

[@hymnofashes]

I have recently become successful at 12n zoom on ACR. I find the best spots to bluff are when the opponent's range is wide, early in the hand, (depending on position and player stats.) In my particular pool it is not a good idea to make big bluffs into big pots reasoning that the opponent is 'capped.' Sometimes the opponent is sitting on the nuts, and sometimes the opponent has no intention of folding. Either way, his range is either too strong or too sticky, and this is because the pot is already large. In other words, the parts of his range that he intended to fold, he would usually have folded to the turn barrel (especially turn overbets,) the calling of which made the pot large. Another way of saying this is that the pool is nitty and fishy. Nits have it and fish don't fold. Third way of saying it is that the point in the hand at which the pool starts to play straightforwardly is the turn. They simply don't have the nerve to float turns with the intention of piling it on the river, and they largely don't have the discipline to fold to river barrels after calling turns with bluff catchers. He called the turn because he concluded that you were bluffing. Your river bet doesn't change that. He is not taking a range of bluff catchers to the turn with the intention of folding some sub-set of them to river shells. You need, in general, to identify the point in the hand where your opponent will shed most of his range, and then bluff him to that point but then shut down, because if you are right, then his range is just too strong, it doesn't matter what equity you have or what blockers you have or what you would have to be bluffing with to be balanced. Another exploit you can use against players who don't have a lot of hands against you is -- if you do want to bluff rivers -- to bluff the river for pot when you don't have it and shove the river for value for 2x pot when you do have it. Both bets look equally scary, and again, few of the fishy, nitty players will think to themselves "I need to defend X% of the time to this huge bet and Y% to this pot-sized bet, so I would pay this off if it were only for pot." Rather, they just think "he's polarized." And then call if they think you have air. This is obviously super-exploitable, so you don't want to do it twice to the same guy in the same month. But 40bb is 40bb.

[@kilobumpin]

i think this is all dependent on who your opponent is, a super nitty player will fold everytime if they dont have top pair a good thinking player is more likely to sniff it out and some players are just to stubborn to fold their marginal hands

[@Ashadow700]

Just to be clear - all of this is predicated on the assumption that our opponent is playing at least somewhat optimally, correct? In the event that they are a player who would keep a 9 & 2 offsuit for example, and be perfectly willing to call both flop and turn with that hand, then all the theory behind this video just goes out the window, no?

[@Anonkontello]

Well…sorta, but such an opponent would over the long run give you an insane amount of money. You *want* an opponent that doesn’t even know their hand rankings. They’re very easy to spot and very easy to play against. This video obviously isn’t applicable to *every* situation, but if they’ll literally play *every* hand that they get, you’ll be printing off of them.

[@vlsh919]

It’s same spot, my friend)) not two of them) you better show in 2nd example how bb attack paired boards with check raise Vs middle position wide cbet)

[@elverdeman9247]

Jonathan, i have been watching poker vloggers and learning from you and I play solid and don't tilt much but i keep getting destroyed on the rivers. It's ugly I just decided to learn code and see where it takes me because poker is B R U T A L.

[@jrviade85]

2:57 "they just give us the pot" Instead they re-raised you with pocket Queens and you fold like a little girl 😂

[@jasondelange4110]

players at 1/3 don't fold top pair or second pair. why bluff them when they just call?

[@Hakz379]

Gotta bluff it bigger , those same type of players you describe are typically smaller stacks, if you fire 80-150% turn then 100-250% river they will fold their marginal hands. Esp if they just check calling with their pair. The key is knowing when to do it, opponent tendencies and preflop action. And postflop bet to feel it out and see where you're at. Late position is such a huge advantage when running bluffs and board texture. Studying and watching videos is great but playing live u just learn so much. When u first sit at a table play pretty tight range in position feel it out then start widening and looking for plays and tendencies of players. Once u start mastering both the technical and theory side along with live experience u will start being a consistent winner. Take some expensive loses, lick your wounds think about what u did wrong and get back in it. Learn to fold decent hands esp low stakes most players arnt going all in without the nuts/ trips +. If you bet too small for value some monsters can catch-up and smack u. Checking calling more. Don't lead into raiser most of the time.

[@jimmykarbaat1831]

I ran a bluff and it failed! LOL

[@purplemonster2239]

Your bluff is only successful if your bluff is successful. If your opponent has a winning hand they'll call you add on it and take a lot/all of your money. This isn't rocket science. Nothing you said here changes that.

[@Anonkontello]

The whole idea of bluffing is to guess when your opponent is weak and act strong. One of the best skills you can have in poker is being a good guesser/hand reader. If you’re successful at guessing just slightly above half the time, you’re a successful bluffed over all. Give Mr. Little some credit. He’s more successful than all of us combined.