When you play poker sometimes there are players you just cant bluff. There are players that don't read they just say hey i have a pair i know im good. There is a raise pre flop and they call on the flop they have bottom pair with lets say a 10 kicker and the player bets 350 into a 200 pot. The player calls and then going into the river calls off the rest of 200 in chips with bottom pair with 10 kicker. I sit back and look and say how the hell you call that. Here is why players call

with air and hope to catch. They call a raise pre flop to hope to hit the flop or outplay you in the pot. The reason is simple these players think all the time you raise that you have ace king or ace queen. They think if there is no ace king or queen on the flop they can call you down with bottom pair and win. Me personally i think this system is flawed. One because what happens when a player raises with kings and keeps betting then what do you do. Well i will give and example of a good call the other day i was playing and i called a 12 raise pre flop with 10 8 off suit. This is not the best hand at all but 3 people called pre flop i was the big blind and it cost me 9 to win 48 it is worth the call. so the flop comes 10 7 5 with 10 and 5 clubs. The player makes it 50 so i call with top pair. the turn comes a 9 of diamonds so i have open ended and also top pair. The player bets 100 so i call. The river is a 3 spades. So i end up with just top pair with 8 kicker. The player acts real fast and says well if you got it ya got it and pushes 250 all in. i have 240 left i think about it and then i call. The player has 7 6 clubs. They had middle pair flush and straight draws. The player than looks at me and says how the hell you call me all the way down and on the river call all in? The answer i gave him was simple if the player goes all in on the river i think he is trying to steal or missed a flush draw there. The reason i did was why go all in if you have a monster hand you want to get value for it and not push just make it like 160 than i fold thinking he had like jacks or kings. I do believe sometimes people push all in a lot to make moves and you can pick these off easy by like knowing there is a flush draw on board or knowing that there is a straight draw on board. They have a saying you can only bluff a good player and i think its true a bad player will just call you down and hope there hand is good.... IE the player calling with bottom pair going into the river that is a real tough call. But by having top pair and also seeing there is a missed flush on the river is a good call. The point is i think there are places to make chips by calling bluffs like this on the river. Do you guys and gals think this is good idea?

may you have big pots,
diesel@learnpokerfromthejoes.com