The #1 Advanced Poker Bluffing Strategy (Skyrocketed My Winnings!)

What bluffing strategies are working for you right now? Also, check out my other new video on advanced bluffing techniques with suited connectors: https://youtu.be/ATGKbIIUaFQ

These ARE the pots that matter. I implement this strategy regularly and it's the difference between winning and just breaking even.

Seems like people don't get why this is a winning play, because "don't bluff the fish". The reason why fish are hard to bluff is because they're too sticky with their pairs. But this board is very dry in terms of pairs and very wet in terms of draws, so when he calls you he's far more likely to have a draw than a pair. Also, if he has a T, I expect him to donk or even raise the flop, as we know fish think top pair is the nuts. If he has an 8 or better I expect him to raise the turn. So whe he goes check-call check-call, he should be folding the large majority of his range on this brick river because his range is literally just busted draws and small pairs like 7x and 66. And yes, even fish will fold their underpair to a 3 barrel, I found out consistency across multiple streets is the key, not to mention from a fish's point of view 66 is a lot weaker than Tx while from a reg's point of view they're the exact same strength as both only beat bluffs. "but your hand blocks draws" : True, but negligible. Good exploitative reads give you infinitely more information than the small edges you get from this kind of GTO logic, the two are orders of magnitude apart. We're not playing against this player type to gain small advantages, we're playing to use all the information available to nail their exact range, which sometimes is literally just one hand. So the reason why this is a winning play is because of the board. On this specific board, a fish will have way too many call/call/folds. Because on a low draw heavy board, they play too many draws too passively, and they donk or raise too much with their good made hands. So when they call 2 streets, it leaves their range incredibly weak on the river. Here their tendency to call with too many weak hands actually makes them more bluffable on the river, not less. The best defense against 3 barrels is to play tight passive : fit or fold on the flop, and never raise any value hand, so you get to the river with a very strong range. Recreationals do the exact opposite.

These are absolutely the pots that matter. Just yesterday at my local card room I ran a bluff towards the end of my session. I picked up 10d, 8d on the button, in a $1/2 NLHE game, eff stacks were about ~$700. Blinds were $1 & $2, and there was a straddle utg to $6. utg+1, mp, lj, hj all limp/call the $6. Cutoff raises to $40. His raise seemed kinda small, so I re-raised to $120, hoping to just scoop up the dead money right there. Everyone else folded, HJ called. Pot = $267 ($273 minus the $6 drop). Flop came 2h, 7c, 6c. Opponent checks, I led out for $115 ($465 behind). Opponent called. Pot is now $497. Turn came Jd. Opponent checks again, and I ripped it in for $465. Opponent tanked for maybe 30 seconds or so, shows me AQ off suit, and folds. I put both of my cards face down on the felt and told him he could pick one to see. He flips over the 10 and said, "ahh! Pocket 10's! nice hand!". I'm predominantly a live cash game player. I only ever play tournaments online if I play online at all. In live play, while we don't have the luxury of seeing HUD screens for our opponents, it's usually pretty easy to spot the rec players vs the regs/grinders. And all too often, rec players - regardless of their hand strength, are usually very uncomfortable playing their hands out of position unless they pick up AK, AA or KK. And when they pick those hands up, they usually get very happy and very ansy, giving away all kinds of live tells that they are super strong.

This is the video ive been waiting for great content as always dude, keep it up

I appreciate this video. I've put the importance of this kind of bluff together, but need to continue practicing it and better recognize this situation so as to be ready to pull the trigger...and pull the trigger. Thanks for the clear example.

You didn’t mention that some bad players with small stacks are more often than not willing to go all in after you bet with a bluff on the river. At least from my experience. You always have to read and play the player. Good vid 👍

On the river. I like a 21 dollar bet apposed to a 17 dollar bet. In sales, the psychological difference between 19.99 and 20.00 is huge

Have applied a lot of things from your videos and my bankroll has improved a lot over the past year. Thanks a lot for the amazing content 🙏

Thanks for the analyses Nathan, actually was curious how you'd have played this out if yours and other players seats were swapped and they had position on you, how would that change your betting and bet sizing across rounds? Thanks

thanku nathan for all the content! i am slowly improving

You're really good at breaking everything down and sticking straight to the points.thanks alot for the info bro

Love the analysis. Spot on. Already applying your position strategy and took down a cash home game. However. Isn’t it problematic having your auto top preset? Won’t your bankroll get away from you in a hurry if you aren’t careful? Keep it up. Love the channel.

I tend to not tripple barrel paired boards because villains are more likely to trap us rather than announce they have a strong hand with a raise because their thick value range of boats don’t need protection. Thoughts?

Hi Nathan. I don't think that Ignition has the auto top up feature. If it does, I'd love to know how to activate it.

I played against a guy with VPIP of 96 the other day. it was glorious. Guy was hitting showdowns with 10,3 offsuit.

Your tip for spotting rec. players is spot on about the buy-in amount. Sub'd

While I appreciate the advice. This is called 100% of the time with a small pair. This advice may have worked 10 years ago. But in microstakes they are ALL call stations. Maybe a Pot bet on river would turn them away. But 1/3 pot with a middling pair? That call button is on fire.

Just won a tournament thanks for all the advice you give helped me a lot

Nicely played I must say you didn't teach me a little bit about how to spot a fish. thank you Yes and I would like to make a request I don't do this really that often but it's been told to me that in order to in order to crush on the the game poker no matter where or what you're playing the first thing you need to learn is to find out what the other players ranges are now to me that's seems pretty hard and how do you actually do that when everybody mucks their cards? I don't understand could you maybe perhaps sooner than later make a video on that thank you Black rain 79 you're awesome looking forward to watching more videos from you