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Message: [QUOTE="xOneCoolHandx, post: 5456350, member: 143461"] This is a great topic. Bluffing is really an art form. There are great bluffing situations and there are terrible bluffing situations. Knowing the difference will determine whether you are a successful poker player or not because you HAVE TO bluff at times. You are not always going to have the best hand. The best time to bluff is when you have a clear range and nut advantage (if you don't know what that means, then spend some time studying it). To put it simply, if there are a lot of cards that favor your range or would give you the nuts on the board as compared to your opponent, even if you don't have any of them, then you can profitably bluff at that hand. For example: You have 66 from UTG+1. You raise to 3 BBs and the BB calls. The flop comes QT5. If you think about it, the BB has a wide range but there are not a lot of Queens, Tens or Fives (and you are leading hands like A5s), but there are lots of Queens, Tens, overpairs and big draws in your range. You have both the range and nut advantage and this is a good spot to bluff (or, more accurately semi-bluff but you could still bluff the same with A6s, K9, J9, ect). However, a flop like T97 will often hit the BBs range. There are lots of suited and unsuited connectors in his range giving him lots of pairs, two pairs and strong draws. There are still overpairs and sets in your range, but there are also just a lot of big cards. So the range and nut advantage has shifted over to the opponent. NOT a good time to bluff (because 66 is more of a bluff hand at this point, it may be the best hand at the moment, but it will not likely remain the best hand by the river.) Knowing the difference with range and nut advantage will make your bluffs more profitable and you will find that you can repeat them. Sometimes you will get caught, but that's ok. Depending on your bet size, you only need to be successful a certain percentage of the time for these plays to be profitable. [/QUOTE]

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