Floating -- who to blame?

In poker, Nothing much feels better than when you bet/raise with nothing and then catching a miracle 2-outer or runner-runner hand, before destacking your opponent.



When that happens, who is the culprit? Do you sympathize the floatee?

Here are some of my successful floating attempts. In turn I don't get floated much, because I usually reraise or fold to a flop raise:

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Check-raise to see whether opponent was c-betting with missed high cards. I got called and then I turned my 2.

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Old hand. Semibluffing with 7 flimsy outs, and then caught runner-runner trips.

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I try to picked up the raised pot on the flop after everybody checked. I was called by trips. Poker God had other plans.

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I was trying to represent AK and make my opponent release what could be A-medium kicker. He had 2-pairs instead and fully paid me off when I rivered my 9.

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A miracle straight flush -- made possible by opponent slow-playing trip-8s.

This is mostly really really bad play on the villains part.

Floating is fine, it exploits bad nits. Anti-float lines are fine too, they exploit bad floaters. Poll lacks third answer "both are good if timed well".

I agree with Vrax. I like people floating against me when I know how many streets they want me to fire. I also like floating against people I know.

Bascially I think floating is horribly abused by people who dont really understand it and I think it can be very good play when done properly (like most plays). It is much better to float when you have a pair (5 out 2 pair draw) or straight or flush draw to fall back on since it turns it into a kind of sophisticated calling semibluff but plently of people float with hideous hands

In poker I dont mind raising preflop and then betting the flop and then catching the miracle 2 outer. The times you are really on the ropes are when you are calling for a 2 outer.

if you float, that obv. means your a witch and were going to have to burn you at the stake.

Which stake? I get burned at 100NL