Comments on: Playing Deceptively – Part 1: Defining Deception

By: MisstressElka

MisstressElka — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 09:12:33 +0000

Nice articles about deception, Ed. Thank you very very much!!!!

By: Wayne

Wayne — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 20:53:04 +0000

To me, being deceptive means one of two things:

1. Playing my hand different then what my opponents would expect me to if they put me on a range of hands.

2. Playing my hand like my opponents would expect me to play a given range of hands, but I actually don’t have that range.

By: threads13

threads13 — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 16:46:00 +0000

Excellent. This is something that I think about a lot in poker. You really have a lot of ammunition if you can keep your ranges somewhat balanced. I think that even the decent players in the online small stakes games struggle with this concept as they will often take lines that leave their hand range unbalanced.

By: ScienceMan

ScienceMan — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 12:40:55 +0000

Good day Ed and all ppl out there.

A very informative post, as always.

But theres one moment i would like to clear up for myself.

In your example, imagine you flop a set also, holding 77. All the remaining action is the same as described in the original example.

So after the villain shoves, you are pretty sure he flopped a set. But which one, exactly? Well, according to preflop action,u might suppose he holds 66. But if he opens up and shows QQ, could you then call his play “deceptive”?

By: Ed Miller

Ed Miller — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 22:20:53 +0000

BilboSan,
Thanks.

SelfMade,
Should be working again now.

By: SelfMade

SelfMade — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 21:41:31 +0000

Print button seems to have stopped working.

By: BilboSan

BilboSan — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 18:41:00 +0000

Good post, especially the first part.

My name for what most people think is deceptive is “Transparent Trickiness”.

For example, any time you raise preflop with AA and then check/raise an Axx board, you are being transparently tricky.