» Bluffing Is A Bad Online Poker Strategy

Bluffing at online poker is a bad poker strategy to invest too much time and your chips in. There is a saying about you only being able to bluff a good poker player and there in lies the problem for bluffing at online poker.

Bluffing as a poker strategy is obviously an important part of any game and is indeed a way to build your chip count throughout a tournament.

Bluffing in cash games is a little more difficult because the limit that you sit at the table with restricts the losses you can incur both calling a bluff and making a bluff.

Bluffing at Cash Games

Bluffing at Cash games also known as Ring Games is one strategy that many new online poker players try to do as soon as they start playing. The problem is that many players will call for several reasons.

Some players, professional poker players or wannabe pro players thinking that they can make a living sitting down at the online poker tables will call constantly against short stacked players.

They have a bankroll that you can’t hurt with a few losses so they will continue to call any time they think someone may be bluffing and as I said, against the new players, they will continue to take their chips.

Poker Bluffing in Tournament Play

Bluffing in tournaments is a little different. It’s a complete waste of time bluffing in the early stages of any tournament. Put simply, the risk far outweighs any gains.

As the tournament progresses along, even in a freeroll event, you will be able to bluff at the blinds.

However, you must be willing to throw your hand away when someone bets over the top.

Also, as with all poker games, you will have to pay attention to what and how people are playing at the table. You may have a player on the table that you simply can’t bluff because of their chip count and they are just calling everything because they continually win.

• Always Stop To Think Before You Bet

I know it sounds so simple but what you think is an instant call being made out of position can be the end of your tournament.

This is both a good and bad point to remember. When you lose your chips the tournament is over for you and this is no different for any other player you are playing against.

Calling an all in bluff by the low man while you are out of position for half your stack while you are holding pocket jacks can see you in all sorts of trouble if the big stack joins in and raises you.

At the very best you are going to be up against Ace high. Yes you are ahead but if he hits your tournament is over.

You only want to put your chips in the middle and risk your tournament life when you a heavy favourite to win. Now sometimes, even then you are still going to lose but if you always put your chips in the middle when you’re way ahead then you’re going to win more than you’re going to lose.

Should You Bluff as an Online Poker Strategy

Always watch how the other players are playing poker online before you start getting creative bluffing at pots. Online poker is a lot of fun but bluffing can be a bad strategy for several reasons.

I’d personally recommend that you bluff as little as possible playing online poker because there is simply too many poker players that call no matter what. Some are pros and know what they are doing, calling because of the size of their bankroll and then there are others that are simply bad players and they call because they don’t know any better.

Unfortunately, when they take your chips they are going to give them to someone else.