Pulled off two great bluffs last night.
One I had pocket 2's and the board read J 9 3 9 J (in that order).
I don't totally remember the preflop action, but I was in the small blind and I called a raise playing 4 or 5 handed. Flop came J 9 3 rainbow, and it checked around. Turn was a 9, and the BB bet, folded around to me and I called. River was Jack, and I donked. Big blind looked at me, looked at the board, looked at his cards, and say I can't call with 4-high and open mucked 43s. Dealer mucked his cards and I opened my bluff.
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The question I have is this: Was your call on the turn because you thought your 22 was potentially good, or because you were setting up for a bluff on the river?
I'm no limit hold'em player, so correct my guesses at your reasoning. The one thing I'm sure you were thinking is that BB did not have a 9.
I can see you calling the turn for several reasons:
1) You figure BB for 2 big cards, or a weak A. In that case, you are currently ahead, and I figure you are betting any river which is 8 or smaller, maybe even betting the T.
2) You figure the BB for a weak J, a 3 or a small pair, so you are behind, but you have decided to bet out on the river if an A, K or Q falls.
3) You called for the strict purpose of bluffing the river, thinking you had a great bluffing opportunity with the way the action had gone thus far.
Eddie,
The big blind here can easily have a very wide range of hands. The turn pairing board and the fact that the preflop aggressor failed to continuation bet indicated that he didn't have anything. If the big blind bets and anyone else calls, I insta-muck. However once the action is folded around to me, I am in a situation where I can call closing the action, where the big blind has no idea what I have. I easily rep a 9 on the river, or even a jack, or even ace high believably. So at this point, even though I suspect my hand is no good, I am not playing my hand so much as playing my opponents. The river is an easy bet/fold. If he raises, obviously I am beat, but what can he have and rep believably. If I had a nine/jack/or ace high, I would bet that river, since clearly I can't expect to get in a check/raise with the action so far. He is in a bad spot, and has to make a killer read on my hand to make a call.
That, and that's really the only way for me to win the hand. If I check, he is going to check almost everything right back, and I'm stuck playing the board.
Last thing, my hand looks like a medium jack, something like JT, QJ, J8, J7 that was going for a flop check raise and whiffed, and when the board paired the 9, got a little afraid and decided to call down, but when filled up on the river just bet it.
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