A No-Limit Four-Bet Preflop Bluff
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Ever since I started making the Poker Made Simple series at Stoxpoker, I’ve been regularly playing the $0.25-$0.50 blind 6-max games on Full Tilt to get a better feeling for what topics to emphasize in my simplified strategy for beating these games. One thing that I know frustrates a lot of players at this level (and much higher) is getting 3-bet preflop. You open for $1.75 from the button with T8s, and then the big blind makes it $6 to go. What to do?
Well, I’ve found so far that most people’s 3-betting range at $0.25-$0.50 is too tight to really do anything except just fold. Many players seem not to 3-bet unless they’re also at least mostly committed to showdown… or at least they aren’t doing it often enough with weak hands to justify playing on or playing back.
But yesterday I ran up against someone who just kept 3-betting me from the big blind. I folded probably the first three times. After the third time I decided that if he 3-bet me on his next opportunity to do so, I’d 4-bet him as a bluff. (Incidentally, if I had happened to have a hand like AA that time, I would have merely flat-called his 3-bet to see if he’d keep up the bluffing postflop.)
And here’s how it went down. We both had about $70 stacks. I opened from the button with K7s for $1.75. He made it $6 to go from the big blind. I reraised to $18, and he folded after a brief pause.
After that hand, he didn’t 3-bet me again for the entire session.
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Tags: bluffing, light 3-betting, microlimit, no-limit-holdem, poker, preflop-play

Just to drop this out here…if you’re looking to see a lot of 3 betting, PokerStars 1/2 NL 6 max is loaded with this stuff (I’m sure other limits there as well..but that’s what I play most of)