What is better in poker: bluffing or playing only with good cards?

[jrrsparkles]

Most of the time the people who bluff and end up wining know exactly how to carry themselves, the game is about trying to deceive and confuse your opponents so that they may think wrongly about your motives.

Bluffing is the key of winning in poker games. If you are a good and experienced bluffer you will definitely win the game. Make sure that your opponent is not good bluffer than you, otherwise he can give you tough time in the game and my win all your money. Always play with less experienced bluffer in poker games, so that You will always be in profit.

Are you sure that bluffing is the only key of winning in poker games? Bluffing is just a strategy, there is no guarantee that you'll always win by bluffing. Even a poker pro player may still lose when he/she use bluff, or even a pro players getting bluffed by a beginner. So I have to disagree that bluff is the key of winning in poker games.

This is just a strategy to make the opponenst distracted and make them feel we are at comfortable position to win that game but it involves risk because we knows that we don't have cards for winning but still making the opponents to give up but if they knows that they are having better pairs then no one can stop us from losing the bets.

[iv4n]

Most of the time the people who bluff and end up wining know exactly how to carry themselves, the game is about trying to deceive and confuse your opponents so that they may think wrongly about your motives.

Bluffing is the key of winning in poker games. If you are a good and experienced bluffer you will definitely win the game. Make sure that your opponent is not good bluffer than you, otherwise he can give you tough time in the game and my win all your money. Always play with less experienced bluffer in poker games, so that You will always be in profit.

Are you sure that bluffing is the only key of winning in poker games? Bluffing is just a strategy, there is no guarantee that you'll always win by bluffing. Even a poker pro player may still lose when he/she use bluff, or even a pro players getting bluffed by a beginner. So I have to disagree that bluff is the key of winning in poker games.

This is just a strategy to make the opponenst distracted and make them feel we are at comfortable position to win that game but it involves risk because we knows that we don't have cards for winning but still making the opponents to give up but if they knows that they are having better pairs then no one can stop us from losing the bets.

Bluffing isn`t the key for winning in poker, but it`s essential part of the poker. We don`t see more than 90% of the hands in poker,  that`s why we need to balance between pushing hard with good hands, and being willing to fold or check with weaker hands, but there are always moments when you need to bluff your opponent.. If there are a good chances for opponent to fold you need to play a bit more aggressively both perflop and postflop, of course you need to recognize moment for that. You can always try poker copilot to automatically record your hands and have statistic about your play, after a while from that statistic you will see what you need to do to improve your poker play.

[leowonderful]

Bluffing's definitely a good skill to have, but you don't need to bluff to be successful at poker, and it's not always good to bluff in certain situations. I don't play poker a whole lot and I'm not an expert at poker by any means, but I place playing with good cards above bluffing when you happen to have good cards. If you don't, then that's where bluffing comes into play, and that's a situation where learning to bluff is helpful.

[shield132]

If you play with good cards, then does it matters? Everyone can win if they have good cards, that's not a point of poker. You have to be unpredictable, sometimes you have to lose even with great cards, sometimes you have to go full even with bad card, sometimes act normal, everything depends on situation, whom you play, how they play and a little bit how lucky you are.

[maydna]

If you play with good cards, then does it matters? Everyone can win if they have good cards, that's not a point of poker. You have to be unpredictable, sometimes you have to lose even with great cards, sometimes you have to go full even with bad card, sometimes act normal, everything depends on situation, whom you play, how they play and a little bit how lucky you are.

Yes, when we have good cards, we can bluff the other player, and we are very confident to win. But we don't know if the other player has bad cards or good cards. It will not work if they have a good card than us so we will get lost in a poker game. But I see that bluffing is one of the strategies to make the other player become worried and afraid and makes them unconfident. And like you say, it depends on situations in that game, and I agree with you.

[Lotermity91]

Along with playing with normal cards, players have to bluff sometimes, and they must be good at it. This is because a player cannot get good hands every single time, or even sometimes it takes quite long to get a suitable hand. Gamblers have to bluff in the game of poker and rest is on his/her luck. Often I have seen real games where attitudes worked like a magic and the player bluffed like a king.

If you are a good bluffer you will have good cards all the time. So it is not a problem that you have good cards or not but keep in mind that bluffing is important in poker games. If you don’t have any bluffing experience, you should not play poker games. You can try your luck in some other game. There are many games for gambling. I mostly bet on sports game.

[Scompe_BTC]

Most of the time the people who bluff and end up wining know exactly how to carry themselves, the game is about trying to deceive and confuse your opponents so that they may think wrongly about your motives.

A very important move to bluff and that is why it is said that experience counts in poker. If you are beginner and bluffing you would be skeptical but experience people will never show or you cannot find out easily if they are bluffing or not. It is also a art which is developed over the time when you play it.

If you have good cards and you are also bluff master, no doubt you will win lot on money in poker games. If you have bluffing experience you will get good cards in every game because of bluffing. One of my friend is very good bluffer and I wonder how he knows the cards in my hands. He knows all the cards in other people’s hand. That why he mostly won the game.

[gowobonyok]

if you have to choose, it's better if you have a good katu. because even if your opponent always bluffs, you can always keep up with your bets and bluff them with a good card. if you don't have a good card and we just bluff, then at the end of the game we will fold.

[panjul07]

if you have to choose, it's better if you have a good katu. because even if your opponent always bluffs, you can always keep up with your bets and bluff them with a good card. if you don't have a good card and we just bluff, then at the end of the game we will fold.

Bluff with bad card is OK as long as you are sure that your opponent will fold after your bluff. I have seen many pro poker players video that they got bluffed by newbies. Although the newbies has bad hands compared to the pro player, but bluff can be something very powerful to be used. Of course, you need to take a look at the whole situation on the table especially your opponent's face and movement. Do bluff when you are ready to lose only, as it is gamble. The chance for your opponent to call is the same as the chance to fold. Even if you have good hands and you start to bluff but your opponent is a great poker poker players and know that you are a bit doubt of what you do then he will bluff you back and at this time you may fold if you are not ready to lose.

[Janation]

if you have to choose, it's better if you have a good katu. because even if your opponent always bluffs, you can always keep up with your bets and bluff them with a good card. if you don't have a good card and we just bluff, then at the end of the game we will fold.

Bluffing requires a lot of gut. I mean, you will not be able to bluff your enemy if you are not really into that kind of strategy, you must really have a huge gut to do that since it is really hard to act while being nervous.

I did bluff my gambling opponents in an online game but that is different since it is online, they will never be able to see your poker face, the way you will be expressing yourself while doing that. Also, your opponents will not know whether you are bluffing or not the reason for me, having a great card and combining it with bluffing is a great weapon.

[Oasisman]

I did bluff my gambling opponents in an online game but that is different since it is online, they will never be able to see your poker face, the way you will be expressing yourself while doing that. Also, your opponents will not know whether you are bluffing or not the reason for me, having a great card and combining it with bluffing is a great weapon.

Are you playing with real money online? Or just a game token/chip? In my case, I was playing online poker 2 years ago, but I'm not playing with real money, just a game chip. But, what makes it more interesting to play is you can actually sell your chips into Fiat.
Anyway, back to the topic. Playing in an actual table inside the casino bears different level of pressure than playing online. And I can say, if you regulary play in a certain casino, bluffing is really necessary to maintain an unpredictable character. If you don't bluff at all, your opponents could easily read your cards. What is important when bluffing is to know when and how to execute.

[hahay]

What kind of bluffing we can do in poker games, I think is just by overbetting to make rival is fold. But I think the bluffing strategy in poker can go well and also badly, because not always the rivals we bluff have bad cards, there are times when our rivals have good cards too and will continue to fight. I think this is an extreme strategy, I personally will not do that strategy too often, because the more I sink into losses, the better I will play safely and only go forward when I have a good card.

[prtty2gal2]

if you have to choose, it's better if you have a good katu. because even if your opponent always bluffs, you can always keep up with your bets and bluff them with a good card. if you don't have a good card and we just bluff, then at the end of the game we will fold.

Bluffing requires a lot of gut. I mean, you will not be able to bluff your enemy if you are not really into that kind of strategy, you must really have a huge gut to do that since it is really hard to act while being nervous.

I did bluff my gambling opponents in an online game but that is different since it is online, they will never be able to see your poker face, the way you will be expressing yourself while doing that. Also, your opponents will not know whether you are bluffing or not the reason for me, having a great card and combining it with bluffing is a great weapon.

That is the thing, and I like the way you put it, which is the ability of your opponent to see your poker face. Even if you want to bluff you should know that you stand a greater chance of winning in most cases, than bluffing for no reason which could actually backfire if care is not taken, depending on how smart your opponent is.

The best thing is to have a pretty good hand and in that way you are only trying to use your other poker skills to drag your opponent into what you want them to think most of the time, but at least, you will not end up being screwed in a way when you have a good hand and sometimes we also have to realize that everyone is trying to act and play smart, so indeed, your own weapon can still end up being used against you, so you still need to be careful how you use it.

[sunsilk]

if you have to choose, it's better if you have a good katu. because even if your opponent always bluffs, you can always keep up with your bets and bluff them with a good card. if you don't have a good card and we just bluff, then at the end of the game we will fold.

Why would you bluff them with good card? that's not bluffing if you have a good card. When we bluff, the cards on our hands aren't so good so I don't get it why you'll bluff having a good card.

If its a face to face table, you can bluff easily but there are poker players who are used to this and knows if the other hand is just bluffing. There's a time that you can bluff but not all the time this is guaranteed and will work.

[STT]

You can bluff all the time if somehow they never guess, obviously they may end up doubting your cards when you have good ones and this also creates a profit to your benefit also.   Its alot easier to do online I think but online leads to a greater range of players including far more unexperienced players then otherwise.

[forked human]

Most of the time the people who bluff and end up wining know exactly how to carry themselves, the game is about trying to deceive and confuse your opponents so that they may think wrongly about your motives.

Bluffing is the key of winning in poker games. If you are a good and experienced bluffer you will definitely win the game. Make sure that your opponent is not good bluffer than you, otherwise he can give you tough time in the game and my win all your money. Always play with less experienced bluffer in poker games, so that You will always be in profit.

Poker is one of the famous games for gambling. As I remember poker was the earliest game for gambling. A good poker player assumed to be a good gambler. Therefore for gambling in past years gambler would learn how to bluff and how to win the game with cheating. The best cheater and bluffer would also win the game.

[Betwrong]

Most of the time the people who bluff and end up wining know exactly how to carry themselves, the game is about trying to deceive and confuse your opponents so that they may think wrongly about your motives.

Bluffing is the key of winning in poker games. If you are a good and experienced bluffer you will definitely win the game. Make sure that your opponent is not good bluffer than you, otherwise he can give you tough time in the game and my win all your money. Always play with less experienced bluffer in poker games, so that You will always be in profit.

Are you sure that bluffing is the only key of winning in poker games? Bluffing is just a strategy, there is no guarantee that you'll always win by bluffing. Even a poker pro player may still lose when he/she use bluff, or even a pro players getting bluffed by a beginner. So I have to disagree that bluff is the key of winning in poker games.

Bluffing by itself is definitely not the key of winning. I've noticed that in a poker tournament with hundreds of participants, players who bluff too much almost never make to the In-The-Money tables. They may win a lot, compared to not aggressive players, in the very beginning, but they usually end up losing everything to one or two players with better hands. Yet, many, if not most of the players, think that bluff is a secret weapon of sorts which they can always use to their advantage. Yes, bluff is a powerful weapon, but it is so powerful that it can kill you if you don't know how to use it moderately.

[stellgod]

if you have to choose, it's better if you have a good katu. because even if your opponent always bluffs, you can always keep up with your bets and bluff them with a good card. if you don't have a good card and we just bluff, then at the end of the game we will fold.

Always better when you know you have a good hand all the time, as this is the only way you know you stand a good chance of at least winning the poker game in the first place, and also it also depends on your opponent anyway and how they are able to call your bluff, but in the long game, it is all about luck and the card you are dealing, and knowing that poker is more like a game of reading your opponent as well as holding good hands, there is always a way that everything is somehow intertwined.

[nydiacaskey01]

There are those who knows how to read if you are bluffing or not but there are also those who are very good in bluffing. If am holding a very bad card I would rather fold than play with it and lose more in the process. I am not good in bluffing. Maybe there are those who are good with it and gets away with it so the answer to topic is it depends if you are good at it and how much you want to risk.

[eternalgloom]

Along with playing with normal cards, players have to bluff sometimes, and they must be good at it. This is because a player cannot get good hands every single time, or even sometimes it takes quite long to get a suitable hand. Gamblers have to bluff in the game of poker and rest is on his/her luck. Often I have seen real games where attitudes worked like a magic and the player bluffed like a king.

If you are a good bluffer you will have good cards all the time. So it is not a problem that you have good cards or not but keep in mind that bluffing is important in poker games. If you don’t have any bluffing experience, you should not play poker games. You can try your luck in some other game. There are many games for gambling. I mostly bet on sports game.

That's just not true, there are many people who play tight-aggressive and still get +EV.
You don't need to be a good bluffer to pull off a strategy like that, especially when you're playing online poker.

I would say it's not a good idea to bluff too much, especially when you're just a beginner.
When you're more experienced, you might want to play loose-aggressive though.