The DANGERS Of Talking While Bluffing 

chips shuffling skills: Over 9000. Bluffing on the river skills: Negative 5

You need to understand that everything you do at the poker table conveys information.

I know that Doug has no control over the ads that run before his vids but I love the Daniel Negreanu poker "Masterclass" ad. hahaha classic.

If I am bluffing or going for value on the river, I always follow one rule. Do the opposite of what your opponent wants; stare blankly at the felt and STFU.

If Garrett could only read people this good on survivor

Doug, is not the bigger issue that some person outside the hand starts asking him questions if he should put the rest of it in? Seems kind of out of line having a player at the table trying to fish out information of a guy in a big moment on the river...

Garett always seems to try and grab your attention to initiate the conversation - stands up, leans over and leers at your chips - all to get some kind of reaction

I did this once when i tired upping the stakes from 1-2 to2-5 tried bluffing 80% of my stack with a 5 card flush out there with leaving little behind the player started talking to me and i stupidly talked back and he called after 4 minutes of tanking i learned never to do that again

Just wanted to thank you Doug for your insight. I played my first live poker tourney last Sunday and won!! Watched many of your poker tourney strat videos to freshen up for it. Felt great.

I'm really liking the recent poker hand vids. I feel like now that Doug is post playing career he's back to focusing on entertainment + strategy which is the optimal blend for me. Enjoying the videos recently from my favorite video blogger (maybe 2nd fav because marle is hysterical)

"Normally on the channel this is when we conclude the video with some nerdy math shit that nobody likes" lmao But that's achually why we all watch!

I don't even play poker and still find this really insightful. Keep up the good work dude.

Why am I seeing a Daniel Negreanu masterclass ad on a Doug Polk video...is the world ending?

Doug Polk? Our GTO lord and savior is giving us advice on our live game tells and skills?? What is this madness, next thing you’ll say joe Ingram has given up the great game in favor of Wrestling.

Strong bit of info that I hadn't noticed before but is true, when a guy's opponent calls his hand out correctly, the guy will usually say something back really quickly. You can see this a lot on High Stakes Poker and in Daniel Negreanu hands since he's always guessing people's cards out loud. If the guy doesn't answer, he may or may not have that hand, but I don't think I've ever seen someone snap reply when their opponent was misreading them.

@Doug Polk Poker: I learn so much from you, thanks for sharing your knowledge. It's absolutely invaluable. You're an absolutely great guy... super positive and a super tactician when it comes to poker man! Out of all the poker channels that give advice yours is way above the rest!

Had to rewatch this one for the 4-years-later-still-lols. BTW, the biggest tell is around @8:15 when Garrett says "you know I don't fold hands, right?" and Buzz quickly replies "yeah, yeah, yeahyeahyeah" as if to say "let's move on from that part, my money's already in the middle"

Hi Doug, please include some more mathematical info in future. It would be great to see, why certain actions as you usually tell us, makes sense or not. I am highly interested to see the math more often.

No mater how many times I’ve heard Garret’s voice it still gets me coming from a man who looks like that!

wc3 reforged HYPE :) saw your on reddit post on r/wc3 . Big fan here ! . your totally right about the if hes acting weak he is strong an if hes acting strong he is weak. some players in the mid stake games tend to over do it when it comes to this.

Daniel Negranu just offered to poker school me in the ad for this video 😂

I love me some Garrett. He has to be my favorite LATB reg. More Garrett hand review please.

I think that betting smaller as a bluff can work really well when your opponent has a weak range. Then you can rep a wider and less polarized range. With that said, his stack on the river was too small to do anything else than shoving.

Got a Daniel Negreanu ad before this video lmaooooo

Hey doug love your channel. Glad to see that you have upgraded your hair style. wtf were you thinking in 2016?

Pretty sure that Garrett guy went on survivor a few seasons ago... weird

Polk should do a vid of him talking strategy AS he is playing online. NOT after. Then id like to see if his over analysis is any good in the moment. I only say this because there are a lot of vids of Polk getting felted that he doesnt upload and when he does, he has this long over analysis explaining why he made the wrong moves lol

That chip playing drives me nuts

Listen Polk, you have been my guiding light, helping me learn advanced strategy and upping my poker game these last few years. You have always been a straight shooter and advocated for the little guy. I SWEAR, if you stop posting content and start living the high life now that you've won the one drop, my faith in humanity will be gone

Is it just me or is it ironic that the ad I see on Doug's poker videos is always for daniel negreanu's training course? xD

Dealer and floor need to crack down on the table talk by people not in the hand, even if they're regulars.

Jamie Gold talked a lot and he was the greatest bluffer of all time

I play mostly live 2/5 and talk while bluffing. I also talk while going for value. Not always, but only when I feel the situation pertains to it (the overall mood of the table). I honestly don't believe the vast majority of people have the capability of extrapolating any real information from confident in-hand chatter (a confidence which Buzz seems to notably lack in this spot). I've straight up held flopped nuts and pretty much told iso'd villain that "I am good here" while preparing to stack off and all it did was admittedly put the villain in a leveling tailspin. In my experience people generally don't know wtf to think when you start talking. Imo it really screws with peoples heads and causes people to make errors of judgement (iow focusing on desperately picking apart your speech instead of the progression of the hand). As long as you legitimately do not tilt, I think talking can be extremely effective in a variety of spots especially in low-mid stakes.

Nice channel , like the analysis. Subbed

I know we aren't talking about building a rocket however, I do like the way you intellectually break down hands. Have a great and safe Thanksgiving everyone!!!

After listening to Doug analyse by talking so much, I understand why the players take so long to make a decision. Buzz just wanted to keep some chips to fondle with.

Garrett read that dude like a damn magazine cover lol

"If you need that last little bit of money for the road, don't play this game!" Best advice, right there.

I would have said "I didn't want to bet 3,500 because I thought that would give away my hand."

He was VERY nervous. If your going to bluff you have to be relaxed. And on the talking tip If you possess the ability to table talk the trick is you have to talk when your strong Talk when your weak Talk when your in a hand Talk when your not in the hand Just talk and talk and talk And be relaxed His body language And how he responded EVERYTHING SCREAMED BLUFF He should have ripped it in there and started laughing at him 🤷‍♂️ That would have worked FOR SHORE

Love your content Doug!

G-man is a beast. Super intimidating with his body language and he perfectly applies the heat to get the read.

If I were to say anything (which I wouldn't, being too hard to balance) it would be,"You got me, I'm trying to save money on my bluff," and that would be it.

More rake is better, right?

Started the vid with the Daniel class add nice 😉

Using a time extension pre flop seems like the biggest tell ever, especially on a relatively short stack. It screams AQ or tens/Jacks to me

Is folding pre-flop to exploitable? Early position 3bet and 4bet i feel pocket TT OOP is gonna have a hard time almost everytime

I’m pretty sure Garret was calling regardless of if Buzz was talking or not

@ 9:00 is there not a point where bluffing all-in becomes readable in itself as a bluff, because you are trying to look like you are making the "big" move by going all-in (which is debatable in cash games where these guys are effectively bottomless bank rolls most of the time anyway) so actually making a value size bet becomes the better bluff size to look like you are trying to extract value. I understand it opens up more of their theoretical calling range, I guess it becomes quite stack size dependent between about 60-120% pot?

I played a game where i had legit like 5 high kept snap calling it was heads up i shove all in guy asks me if i was bluffing i told him yes he folds i show the bluff 6 hands later had a boat same guy asked if i was bluffing again because its heads up i tell him know he calls and lost with a set he was mad i told him im an honest player a week later find myself heads up with him he asks if im bluffing i just told him he meeds to call to find out and thats where the guy got pissed loosing Ace high flush to a straight flush 😂 that gentleman doesn't ask me anymore

It's best to keep quiet in either case. You want your opponent to consider you a mystery. I would have pushed if I were Buzz. That leaves Garrett with the decision. Shoving would tell your opponent that you're most likely solid.

That move at 3:53 fake muck and then reach for a time bank with his thumb, was nicely done

Negreanu ads on this vid 😂😂

The way buzz fondles those chips is hypnotic

It’s good to see that Garrett is a lot better at Poker than he was at survivor XD

A Daniel Negreanu ad on a Doug Polk video. RU-vid is just on top of it.

It's hard enough to balance your hands, let alone balancing other things like banter.

i feel like I make a lot of calls in live poker just because they talk me into it

Lmao the guy goes I need money for a Uber hahahaha

Ah, seeing Daniel negs system advertisement talking about not being loose and talking while bluffing on a Doug polk video about not talking while bluffing

Clearly garret is fishing info. Buzz should just zip it up

PLEASE MAKE MORE OF THESE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Buzz has to much nervous action going on? I would have pick up on this and played all in for the pot rookie move!

It was the third party who was talking that cost Buzz this pot. Whoever it was asked some questions that caused Buzz to show his face that gave it away right away, to me at least.

that guy with the QQs probably calls 6k and change shove just as well as the 4k that was bet on the river. I am unsure what the guy with 10s could have said to get the guy with the QQs to fold. I guess as a player you'd have to develop skills that go beyond actual poker. You have to give off the vibe of having a strong had, the mannerism have to be on par and you have to act a certain way where it subconsciously makes the other player actually believe he is beat.

A lot of people don't know this but Buzz is the kid from the movie "UP".

Keep it up Doug!

Oh my bad.......I thought you were referring to YOU talking too much during this video. LOL

Daniel Negranu master class commercial... let the games continue. Time for another billboard

I keep raising up good hands, missing the flop, getting raised on, then What do I do with like A high, underpairs; folding feels bad? Calling feels bad?

still no voice mixer for your vids yet?

Buzz dug a nice big hole getting in far too deep with a weak hand. Any justification for him folding after the 4-bet pre-flop? Which is probably what I'd have done, as what are you beating?

His chip shuffling makes me want to flucking live life to the fullest dear God

Man did the man making the video put me nervous cutting the video everytime

hey doug, do you play high stakes poker?

Great vid dougie burger

The guy sitting left from Buzz = Tim Duncan

If you talk while bluffing, you gotta talk when you have the nuts too. Will Kassouf is a perfect example. I find if someone is talking or typing during a hand they usually have it.

I will subscribe just to see your micro bankroll course.

I talked during a bluff the other day day and got owned. I even told the guy what he had and he still called. 🤔

The best thing to do is, if you talk then always talk, and if you dont talk then never talk. Either that or constantly switch it up but if you do never play hands the same.

Buzz was levelling by keeping a bit back

Garrett is right. Betting not his full stack makes this look and smell like such a bluff. And it makes any call from Garett easy, he only needs about 35% to call, and almost nothing changed from the turn - where he could have shoved more into a smaller pot on a flush draw - which looks like the Ace of clubs.

when he asked if he would be willing to put the rest in if given the option, i would have said "well now i do now that i know your not snap calling"

really not a fan of talking on a river bluff, especially if you don't know exactly what you're going to say in response to everything

Yes! New Poker Hands!

This is true. I often say I'm weak when I'm strong and say I'm strong then I'll be weak lol

Hey Doug!!! Love you in all your dp poker stuff!!! But id drop that bitcoin channel before your doing the $10,000 challenge for real. Thanks for all the programming!!!!!!

Buzz does not have the table talk skills of Scott Siever... Just ask Reinkemeyer! " I was trapping Scott...." "What can you do?" lol

Is that The Garret that was on survivor?

Have you been buying more Bitcoin and Dash

why are there 12,000 ads for a 14 min vid?

Although I don't think this is what Buzz was doing, I think there can be situations where you could want to bet smaller on the river to entice the other player to call. That is if you have a really strong hand, not these pocket 10s. Again, I don't think Buzz was doing this, but kinda weird for Garrett to get all up in arms because Buzz didn't shove all in. It's his decision. If he truly thinks he has the best hand, and he thinks Garrett could possibly fold, making a smaller bet than all in is fine. If he thought,big I put in the last 2200, that makes my bet almost half pot, and Garrett may fold, but if I put in just 4k, maybe he will call and I will get paid that 4k extra, rather than nothing. Again, I don't think Buzz was doing this, but for Garrett to call him out is kinda jerky. U can bet whatever I want. If you want to come in over the top and put me all in then fine, but it's my money, my decision. I have a huge pet peeve of people telling me I did something wrong because it wasn't what I was expected to do. That's poker people. I tend to think that you not getting why I made a certain move is a good think. You don't want everyone to know what you are doing at all times.

i learned this tell watching Rounders, yeah im a pro

I understand. Go all-in

Buzz was trying to give a reverse tell

id bet doug has a deal with live at the bike

What does Garrett say at the end talking about hes got the whole world sweating..

I actually like buzz's hand selection for bluffing here. I dont think flatting a cold 4 OOP in a SPR >2 is a good idea with hands like suited broadways or connectors, or whatever. On an A high board TT seems very close to the bottom of buzz's range, so we bluff with our 10c for equity/blockers and we're targeting garrett's JJ-KK. That all seems very reasonable to me

Good read