Quote Originally Posted by bigslikk
I don't really get the awe of this discovery. Never bluff in a spot where you wouldn't have a made hand? Okay, never represent a good hand in a situation where your opponent knows that you couldn't have a good hand.

In other words, don't be utter shit at bluffing. Gotcha.
It's not really that. I mean it's fine to be utter shit bluffing if it's positive EV. The problem with utter shit bluffing is that it doesn't add any value to our Shania. Which means, our good hands get no added value.

My realization, really, was that you could look at this in a different way. Instead of thinking, ok i want to have bluffs in my range so my good hands get paid off more. It was, i want good hands in my range because it adds equity to my bluff, the bluff does not have to survive on it's own. And furthermore, that this added equity by having good hands added to your bluffing range, is easily calculable.

And why is it called Shania?
Some guy on 2 plus 2 made it up a longwhile ago, he decided to call the term Shania after Shania Twain. There's a link to it in ISF's blog i think.