4-of-a-Kind
Join Date: Jul 2004
Posts: 2,911
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I don't play enough hands to really know anything - but as to 1) I have to believe that playing marginal EV hands for small pots is good for image. This means open raising suited junk in position, c-betting OOP into limped pots, bet/folding, floating and in general trying to see a reasonable number of flops (ca. 25%).
Many really LAG players take this to extremes of spewage early to collect late, but I don't like the variance, and I don't play against the same guys over and over again.
As for being deceptive with 1 pair hands... I don't really "get" this either, but I would think "pot control" is the opposite of deception here, unless you like to slow play monsters. So what he must mean is that you have to sometimes play 1-pair hands strong for balance? I guess playing draws weakly balances pot control TPGK hands.
I guess the difference between bluff to stop a bluff and block betting is when
a) you want a fold vs call
b) there are cards to come and you have outs, but no showdown value (semi-bluff to stop a bluff?)
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