Here's a simple bluff that you can use in your game today.
Let's say you're playing a tournament and it's a $200 or a $300 buy-in event. You want to start building up your chip stack before the bubble.
You know you have to start taking chances because you typically aren't getting the chips you'd like to have once the bubble bursts. You want to set yourself up for a healthy stack when you make the final table.
Let's say you have a hand like 9-8 offsuit and the cutoff raises. You decide to call out of the big blind. The board comes 
. You have one heart in your hand, and for this example, letās say itās the 
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You check and your opponent bets. Now you could just check-call here. But there's something I'd recommend you do with 50 to 70 big blinds, which is a bit exploitative, but it works really well versus low-stakes competition, especially if people have been playing for three or four hours. They really don't want to go bust at this point, especially if they have a healthy stack.
Let's say you guys are about 50 big blinds deep. That is a perfect stack size for check-raising, then betting the turn, and jamming the river. You should do it in this situation pretty often.
Ramp up the aggression
Let's say the board came like we said ā 754 with a flush draw. The cutoff opens with way too many hands because it's live poker and people are bored. He is likely continuation betting with all of those hands because he doesn't want to be balanced ā he just wants the pot right now.
Once you check-raise, and he just calls, you have info ā there's a really good chance he would have raised with a set or two pair. Why? Because it's a pretty dangerous board to slow play on. But also, a lot of the overpairs are not feeling great either.
If he has a hand such as nines or tens, he might just call you there. But a lot of turn cards are overcards, which will make him sick. Even though you don't have a ton of those overcards, he's not really going to be thinking about that. He's just going to notice the board keeps getting worse for him.
If the flush draw comes in, he doesn't have that the majority of the time, so you can bluff those cards. If the overcards come in, he doesn't have that the majority of the time. You can keep going after that just because a lot of times overcards will just bet-fold, especially if you check-raise to a sizable amount.
Set up the triple barrel
It's a really exploitative triple barrel, but it can work versus a lot of players who fast play too much with their best overpairs, their sets, and too much with their two pairs. They only bet/call there with mediocre pairs that are praying for a cheap showdown.
I recommend you set up that triple barrel. You're going to like it and it'll help you build chips.
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