Being unpredictable

[paxmao]

Is there a way that you can ensure being difficult to predict at Poker? For example, if you never bluff, people will eventually get to known that and it will reduce your ability to profit from good  cards? Anyone there knows techniques or trick to avoid being easy to read?

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[goaldigger]

You have to play online and by this no one can predict your emotion. 
Seriously, this will depend on you and what type of personality do you have. If you’re look more serious then it can be a good weapon for you, and if you look with less emotion that can also be good. We don’t know how the opponents reads your every move, so stay calm and focus on the game.

[jossiel]

You just have to play randomly and bluff randomly.

But I doubt it that someone has never bluff. It's always part of the game that we get to bluff when we think that the other opponent will bite it. Or when we just feel that we have to bluff when we're in an all in.

There's no actual random strategy that will make you difficult to be predicted because by just sitting alone, we're already hard to predict. In real life and actual poker table, just always have a poker face. 

[Darker45]

You have to play online and by this no one can predict your emotion.  

This may not be true. Your emotions and strategies could still be predictable even if you are playing online poker.

For me, you can be unpredictable if you don't stick to a single strategy. Please don't treat me as an expert in poker, of course. I am mostly just playing for fun and even with fun poker games with little bets, my hand would still uncontrollably shake.

Anyway, having only one approach will make your play very transparent. Try to shift from one approach to another and your opponent will keep on guessing. Being too methodical in poker would be to your disadvantage. Playing only premium hands, for example, will soon become apparent to your opponent and you may easily fall to weaker hands through a bluff.

[Wexnident]

Be random, play with confidence in your every move and that means stop playing safe and move however you want I suppose? Big risks, big rewards kind of mentality. Poker is one such type of game out there that requires you to actively take risks while still using your brain to come up with strategies and the like. Ofc, bluffing is can and will be used, but don't be stupid and use it all the time. Use it at occasions where you think it could work out (don't exactly know when, I just bluff when I think it's good). Or you can purposely throw a few rounds here and there, betting quite an amount waiting for a scenario where you can take it all back. This, however, only works on the first scenario since people would only think of you as reckless once so take care. 

[Jemzx00]

You have to play online and by this no one can predict your emotion.  

This may not be true. Your emotions and strategies could still be predictable even if you are playing online poker.

For me, you can be unpredictable if you don't stick to a single strategy. Please don't treat me as an expert in poker, of course. I am mostly just playing for fun and even with fun poker games with little bets, my hand would still uncontrollably shake.

Anyway, having only one approach will make your play very transparent. Try to shift from one approach to another and your opponent will keep on guessing. Being too methodical in poker would be to your disadvantage. Playing only premium hands, for example, will soon become apparent to your opponent and you may easily fall to weaker hands through a bluff.

On a real poker match, one key factor that everyone is keeping their eye on to their opponent are their faces especially the eye as it gives off if they are bluffing or not. When it comes to online poker, that key factor is gone and you must analyze if your opponent are bluffing or not based on their bets and play style but being inconsistent on your strategy can make you unpredictable and confuse your opponents.

[maydna]

Being cold face to the other player can be a solution, and do not change your gesture, and not think much. You can take a look at your card, close it on the table, and not check it too often while you still use cold face. I think that can make the other player curious about your card, and they want to find out. But I am not sure if you against the pro player because I feel they will know it somehow.

But if it comes to poker online, you can play without any tension, and you can check your card many times because the opponent will not know what you do. So I think that makes you feel safe about your card. But I do not think about bluffing the other player as you do not know what their reaction.

[fiulpro]

Is there a way that you can ensure being difficult to predict at Poker? For example, if you never bluff, people will eventually get to known that and it will reduce your ability to profit from good  cards? Anyone there knows techniques or trick to avoid being easy to read?

Avoiding being easy to read depends on your personality. Every person has some attributes and bluffing only works if you are actually very confident. I do think you should start with building your confidence, then you have to learn about your opponent also , it you do know that your opponent is bluffing this would be extremely helpful since you can avoid being caught. Have you heard of quote that *liars know when someone is lying*. I might not know anything about poker but at the same time I can bluff all the way to the top. We sat down with friends this evening to play a little and I won even though I had not a single idea only about the high cards and the premium hands.

So just be :
Confident
Cool
Do not get intimidated
Make sure you are not just bluffing but at the same time keep your backup and know when to fold.

[AicecreaME]

I don't play poker but I did watch a lot of movies and anime that has poker game on it, so I am sure that bluff is a very great technique to win in poker or escape a loss on it. Bluff is to make your opponents have second thoughts, and once you succeeded on doing such, their decisions would probably half assed therefore most likely you'll win or lessen the amount of money you're about to lose if you'll not use bluff for it.

But I think that's only important if you're playing in a physical casino but it doesn't matter when playing in online casino.

[maxreish]

Do not stick to one strategy. If you are bluffing for a long period of time, of course they will gonna predict your move.  Whatever strategy you will have in poker, they will always read and predict it. Just play with your diffirenr style or instinct and once you win a good profit, self control and running with the profits is the best move rather than being greedy as the longer you stay with any game like poker, the more they predict your strategy.

[Poker Player]

Is there a way that you can ensure being difficult to predict at Poker? For example, if you never bluff, people will eventually get to known that and it will reduce your ability to profit from good  cards? Anyone there knows techniques or trick to avoid being easy to read?

What you ask is known as balancing, but it is only worthwhile to start balancing at medium levels. At micro limits or at the lower levels of land based casinos, people don't think too much. At those levels it is enough to select your starting hands well and bet for value aggressively.

When you go up levels, you will find more opponents who think and pay attention to what you do. So, if you are one of those who only bet when you have good hands, they will not pay you for value, and if they do it will be because they have a better hand than yours. This is where the concept of range balancing comes in. For preflop plays, for example, let's say a 3bet range of value is TT+, AJs+; Aqo+. If you want to balance you have to put into the range other hands that are not as good but may have good postflop playability depending on what comes out, such as 22-55 or 78s-TJs.

For postflop play the same, you can't just bet or re-raise only when you have a good hand, you have to start doing it with other hands, and it's better to start with semi-bluffs and later on you will put in pure bluffs.

[Mauser]

Is there a way that you can ensure being difficult to predict at Poker? For example, if you never bluff, people will eventually get to known that and it will reduce your ability to profit from good  cards? Anyone there knows techniques or trick to avoid being easy to read?

I think the most important think to make you unpredictable is include a wider range of bluffs in your play sytle. But you should be careful not to over bluff. So instead of beginning to bluff too much when you are new to a table, I would recommend to stick to good startin hands for a while until you get the rep of playing only good cards. This is going to make it much easier for others to fold to your bets. But be careful to choose your bluff spots right. The right way of bluffing is not that easy. You need to make sure that you have atleast some blocker cards to make your bluff more believing.

[jrrsparkles]

Is there a way that you can ensure being difficult to predict at Poker? For example, if you never bluff, people will eventually get to known that and it will reduce your ability to profit from good  cards? Anyone there knows techniques or trick to avoid being easy to read?

Never express anything even in your face that's the pro strategy of poker, remember you need to convince your opponents that you got better cards them even though its a lie, keep your confidence level high and your bankroll too incase if you got backfired.

[acroman08]

Is there a way that you can ensure being difficult to predict at Poker? For example, if you never bluff, people will eventually get to known that and it will reduce your ability to profit from good  cards? Anyone there knows techniques or trick to avoid being easy to read?

not sure if this actually works(since I don't know if my opponents think I am unpredictable) but having different plays or adust your plays for different cards on your hands is probably the best way to throw off or confuse your opponents. just like what Darker45 said do not stick to a single strategy. even in other games or sports playing the same strategy over and over again will make you predictable or easy to read. also

[Cnut237]

Is there a way that you can ensure being difficult to predict at Poker? For example, if you never bluff, people will eventually get to known that and it will reduce your ability to profit from good  cards? Anyone there knows techniques or trick to avoid being easy to read?

I'm sure the random approach has its merits, but one technique that I sometimes use if I have a very strong hand is bet very conservatively initially, and then later on, say on the turn or the river we get a card that is no value to anyone, I suddenly bet big. More often than not this makes people think you are bluffing. The key I think with any strategy is to use it sparingly. Don't play to a pattern, because that becomes easy to read.

[Yaunfitda]

Is there a way that you can ensure being difficult to predict at Poker? For example, if you never bluff, people will eventually get to known that and it will reduce your ability to profit from good  cards? Anyone there knows techniques or trick to avoid being easy to read?

Then be unpredictable, if you have good hand then don't act like you have, sometimes you have to play aggressive if you have a bad hand, and same when you have a good hand. So that your opponents will be having a hard time reading you and your cards.

And I would say that it's will also take a lot of practice, meaning you have to play at lot and of course you need to have a good bankroll as well.

[swogerino]

Is there a way that you can ensure being difficult to predict at Poker? For example, if you never bluff, people will eventually get to known that and it will reduce your ability to profit from good  cards? Anyone there knows techniques or trick to avoid being easy to read?

There is no easy way to do that but you can for example bluff when you are playing during a hand with low amount betted on.I would not suggest you never bluff in a hand when many people have gone all in.The more you play the more you will know when to bluff.

[zanezane]

There is no easy way to do that but you can for example bluff when you are playing during a hand with low amount betted on. I would not suggest you never bluff in a hand when many people have gone all in.The more you play the more you will know when to bluff.

You can practice having a poker face and make your strategy of playing mixed so as to make people think that you are playing randomly and always giveaway a red herring that the other players will notice but not in an overt manner like simple chin rub. Also the word is unpredictable, impredictable shows red lines when I type it in the post so it is not a real word.

[acquafredda]

You have to play online and by this no one can predict your emotion.  

This may not be true. Your emotions and strategies could still be predictable even if you are playing online poker.

For me, you can be unpredictable if you don't stick to a single strategy. Please don't treat me as an expert in poker, of course. I am mostly just playing for fun and even with fun poker games with little bets, my hand would still uncontrollably shake.

Anyway, having only one approach will make your play very transparent. Try to shift from one approach to another and your opponent will keep on guessing. Being too methodical in poker would be to your disadvantage. Playing only premium hands, for example, will soon become apparent to your opponent and you may easily fall to weaker hands through a bluff.

Yes, the longer the sessions the easier to get how people play poker. I agree it is not the same as playing live face2face but still if you are skilled enough you will get to know other people's strategies. For example, who folds a lot at the beginning will probably raise only when having good hands. You go to see them once and then they do not know how to continue playing.

[OgNasty]

Being unpredictable is a skill in life as much as at the card table. I would say to mix things up. When not a lot of funds are on the line, do the opposite of what is expected of you. Add some randomness to your game and your life. You’ll live longer.