pro crastinator
4-of-a-Kind
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: No hindsight for the blind.
Posts: 1,842
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Originally Posted by zook
1. Are you in a game where you find it necessary to manipulate your opponents? How do you do it? Are you conscious of trading small mistakes for large ones?
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Manipulating opponents is definitely part of most games. 3-bets with non-premiums/smooth call with premiums occasionally to disguise my ranges, checking down in smallish pots where I could possibly win with a bluff to maintain a tight postflop image and increase bluff success in a larger pot, check behind a good hand on the flop to make the aggros fire turn and river, the list goes on. Most of these things aren't conscious decisions, and most of it serves an immediate purpose as well as a metagame purpose.
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2. In Concept #4, S&M say "Sometimes you should bluff to stop a bluff." Do you ever do this? How does it differ from a blocking bet?
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Can't really say that I do.
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3. In Concept #7, S&M recommend disguising your one pair hands unless you can profitably call big bets. How might you do this?
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As you said, pot control helps serve this purpose.
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