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www.betfairpoker.com - In many ways poker revolves around getting your opponent to think the wrong situation has occured, but you must be aware that your opponents estimations of the strength of your hand, are a work in progress. they will be picking up on what you are doing and form logical conclusions as to why, with their estimate of the cards you are holding, being changeable.

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The following example demonstrates this well. Say you have (7,8) in the small blind and it has been folded around to you, and you put in a fairly small raise. The first possibility that will cross your skilled opponents mind is that you are raising quite small perhaps because you have a strong hand and do not want to force them out of the pot. If the flop comes down without an Ace, king, or queen, and you miss completely, your opponent is beginning to put you on a hand like (A,J) (A,Q) or (A,K) as soon as you check to them.

I often use this play, as I know that most of the time I will induce a raise from my opponent. Why would I induce a raise when I have nothing you might ask, but the point is that my opponent will suddenly change their opinion of the cards I am holding the moment I reraise. By far the most logical conclusion they will come to if I reraise them, is that I have an overpair in the hole, or a pair that has made a set. That possibility will always be in their minds, but whilst the original check will cause them to begin discounting the idea, the moment I reraise, it doesn’t just bring that possibility back into their minds, it reinforces it. This is because they know if I had such a hand, the betting both on, and before the flop would tie in.

You must remember that in poker, when trying to mislead your opponent, you have to make sure the betting matches up to the hand you are trying to represent.

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