Quote Originally Posted by larsmars
1. Please stop bluffing empty side pots.
It's borderline bad etiquette and achieves nothing except helping the player who is already all in by removing another player from the pot. If you have a draw and are semi-bluffing, then you just bluffed out the one player who could pay you off.
I couldn't agree more with this and fail to see why people do this. I know it increases the bettor's chances of winning (so maybe I see one reason), but it still puzzles me when he bets AQ on a 952 rainbow, makes me fold something like 88 (figuring he has a higher pp and wouldn't bluff an empty side pot), and then lose to the AI player's unimproved AK.