One of the Best POKER BLUFFS Ever? Hand of the Day 

It's true it's hard to get low stakes players to fold. Really have to know your opponent.

Agreed. AJ really isn't at the bottom of your range. A lot of the two-pair combos (AK, KQ) should really be here. If you want to bluff once in thirty times, as Alec argues for, AJ is too high up in your distribution, and doesn't have enough boat-blockers.

Yes all the Jacks are calls. Solver says raise with AA, TT, and AT. Call KT, QT and all the Jacks, bluff raise with T9 and T8 about half the time (call the other half). AK AQ are mixed strategy. about 75% fold 20% call and 5% raise. KQ is fold.

Noteworthy is that if you jam with the suggested range (AA, TT, AT, some T9 and T8), solver says AJ is a better calling hand for villain than QT is. AJ blocks the AA and AT value and QT blocks the T9 and T8 bluffs.

I think you have the wrong idea about GTO. If you play that way there is nothing your opponent can do to exploit you. He can jam 100% of his hands or fold 100% of this hands or play perfect strategy. It does not matter what he does because your strategy is balanced. You could play your strategy face up telling him exactly what hands you are betting and what hands your are folding etc. and there is still nothing they could do about it to make more money off you.

Don't get me wrong. I don't like playing GTO. GTO is a very self absorbed way to approach poker. You are playing your cards and not really considering your opponents too much. As your opponents deviate their play from GTO you make money as they over fold or under bluff etc. You don't worry about them you just worry about you. I personally hate this and think it is bad for the game. For one the margins are very small and you must be willing to take on large variance to play this way. Also it is typically much better to use at high stakes because rake has less of an impact and the little margins become significant because lots of money at play. Personally I think playing GTO is not playing poker. I think poker is a human game and you want to play other humans. When everyone wants to play GTO it becomes a race to be a robot. Humans are not good at that. Robots are pretty good at that. Lets do human things. I think we should be over bluffing in spots where we think our opponents are over folding. And I think we should make hero calls with our entire range when we think our opponent is over bluffing. I think deviating from GTO is what makes poker poker. I think that is what the game is all about. Knowing where the GTO line is so you can make good decisions is very useful. Don't use your knowledge of GTO to kill the game, use GTO to become great at it. In this situation in particular I would think about it this way. If I Jam here what should my opponet do. He is supposed call with AJ and AT KT QQ and. He should fold QT QJ KJ TJ. Do I think he will be calling more or less then this? If he is calling more than the hands above you should under bluff and remove some of the hands from your bluffing range. If he is folding too much? If so then you should add some more hands to your bluffing range. (like KQ). Is he folding everything but AA TT? If so lets bluff with all our aces even AJ. From playing poker I think most people under fold in this spot. My thinking would be to only bluff my T8s and take the T9s out of my bluffing range.

Brandon Dorsey I don't actually believe this hand happened ay. Find it so hard to think a low stakes player folded q10 there. I couldn't have either.

low stakes live, it's near impossible. low stakes online? that's where you find the nittiest of the nittiest players. maniacs like Gus Hansen may steal 30 blinds in a row but definitely lose all the buyin in one hand at some point.

me neither.

True, but poker's all about exploiting opponents. If you know they are going to overfold, then go for it! Sure he's getting 3:1, but does he really expect his opponent to be bluffing 25% of the time to break even? Most of the time this isn't a bluff, which makes me like it!

Noe Zamora any good player is going to fold kk on the turn, so he wouldn't put him on kK on the river.

Dog wag So then any great player would call with KK?

Noe Zamora on the turn fold, unless the bet was very cheap.

THIS

not a good spot on the turn at all for the hero. Hero being a hero going for the 1 outer.

heyglasses thank you for validating my thinking here...Alec didn't seem to comment on this nor did the other commenters I read below up to 9 hours ago, so I was a bit worried. terrible reverse implied odds if you hit a straight or flush too, eh?

check on flop is perfect... I would do it also... and it is true that you dont beat any value shoves in villans place, but hero have enough bluffs to justify call, and considering pot odds to be profitable one ;)

definetly for pot control, you are ahead most of the times here, because there is slim chance that those 2 guys have AK or AQ there (because they will 3-bet pre) but there are some combos of T that they actualy can have there, and like alec said there is low chance you can have 3 streets of value with heros hand, and by checking also our hand is under repped and we can bet bigger on later streats to get value of weaker aces.

you are thinking righ about when you should bet, to not give free card for oponent when there are a lot of draws, but this is not that situation... there are no draws here exept some gutshots, but with J in our hand we block a lot of them. You should bet on wet boards a bet bigger to charge for drows... this is very dry board and betting to charge drows just dont make any sence ;)

whoa he folded!!

I love bluffing with my royal flushs in Omaha to try and get my opponent off a chop.

I don't, strictly NL at the moment. I've heard great things about PLOQuickPro.com