Bluffing a player who is on a draw.

Originally Posted by michael1123

If you put them on a draw, I say fire rather weak on the turn and then fire again at the river if the draw misses. You kind of want the turn call if he's on a draw as he'll likely miss it and dump his hand. This way you also don't risk losing a large turn bet when the draw completes or you've misread his hand.

Yeah, I thought of that. But a drawback of making a weak turn bet is that it isn't really consistent with the kind of hand you're trying to represent (an overpair or whatever), since generally these hands are concerned with protecting the pot against drawing hands. In this way you might be inviting a decent player to play back at you.

For example, the opponent might try a line like check-call the flop, then check-raise the turn, which basically forces you to fold.

Not necessarily likely, but possible.