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Message: [QUOTE="Phoenix Wright, post: 6176424, member: 419963"] Most likely yes. Additionally, the Hellmuth vs Dwan game was a Heads-up match, was it not? Any pocket pair (even as low as 33) is a much stronger hand Heads-up when it is tougher to make a strong hand; instead of being beat by one of eight other players (9 in full ring poker), you only have one other player to beat, so even a One Pair hand is often times decent enough to hang in there with. I suspect the pocket pair was a bluff-catcher hand against Dwan's aggressive playstyle; Dwan is very capable of bluffing with hands like Ace-high or much weaker and even one pair is ahead of this :cool: It depends what you mean by "bluff" and who the pro is playing against. In the high-stakes games among the world elite EVERY pro needs to bluff some portion of the time or they become far too exploitable. One also has to define "bluff" though. Is a flush draw a bluff (semi-bluff example)? What about a made weak pair on a coordinated board (like 99 on a board of Ah Kh Js Jc 3h)? A scenario when a pro would NOT bluff is against a calling station, or an effective stacks scenario where bluffing isn't as appealing. However, pros are professional in large part because of their ability to correctly adapt to the situation, but EVERY pro is capable of bluffing and do so fairly often (how often depends on playstyle, situation, table image etc.) Could you post an example or two which surprises you? I'm pretty sure most are not shoving for 52% equity. Perhaps there is some range details, or meta-game factors which justify it? Similarly, they are likely not shoving with 52% equity by the strength of the exact cards they have - they are probably shoving based on something like pot odds, strength of their range, opponent capped range etc. If you want to post an example or two, we could try to figure it out together (even though we are probably far from pros :D) Who knows? Perhaps a poker pro on cardschat might even stop by and illuminate something we were oblivious to ;) [/QUOTE]

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