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[QUOTE="blankoblanco, post: 983351, member: 11119"]
siiiiiighhh

every time i see a complaint like this, i wonder if anyone has ever heard of the concept of a "bluff" in their lives. successful bluffing can be an important part of a player's game, [B]but in televised poker we only rarely see the successful bluffs, because when they [I]work[/I], it doesn't make for a big all-in pot. it's only when the guy gets [I]caught [/I]that it turns into a bust-out hand that they must show[/B].

do people honestly not understand that concept? it's the same with 3betting light. the times brandon cantu (an example from before the final table) 3bet preflop with garbage and it worked, they're not going to show those hands, because it's fold-and-take-it poker. the sample is huuugely skewed for us to see the times they get caught. and then armchair geniuses get to make comments which basically amount to "LOL OMG BLUFFING IS DUMB BECAUSE IT DIDN'T WORK"

yes, there were some imo terrible bluffs, but that's due to ranges, hand-reading, what they were representing, so on. breaking it down to "wow, what an idiot for going all-in with no pair, no draw" makes you sound like you don't know what you're talking about
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