Online Poker for All

Whether you are bluffing in a live game or online, the art of bluffing is mostly about suggestion. Your actions have to suggest strength in your opponents mind, and they have to feel that they need to fold any mediocre hand they might be holding.

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although body language and facial expression are not things you can use to convey this false strength in online play, there are many other ways of doing so. Firstly I would have to say that making your decision relatively quickly suggests confidence in your hand, as does making a bigger raise or re raise. But you also have to weigh up the greater risk involved in bigger bluffs. With this in mind I often think it is better to allow an aggressive player to make the first move and then re raise over the top, but be warned that this requires confience firstly in your read that your opponent is weak. Secondly you need to be sure that your opponent is not skilled enough to read your weakness confidently and make a second re raise over the top of yours. Even if you trust your reads and think your opponent is fairly weak, being re raised by a player here is not what you really want when you are bluffing. Always try and pick up pots uncontested rather than get involved in bigger pots with an average hand that you feel is probably best.

With any type of bluffing, including online, looking for dangerous possible to represent is always worth doing. Often a raise when a dangerous card comes off will result in you finding out much more about your opponents hand and whether they fear that you have made the hand you are representing. Be careful though, because they may have made the hand themselves. To summarise, bluffing online requires representation and suggesting strength when dangerous cards come out, but also being aware of when to give up on a bluff too.