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Inducing

Curtis Thomas
 
 
A powerful move in your poker arsonal should be inducing bluffs. An aggressive villian can easily stack off if you are showing weakness but you could lose value if your oppenent does not bite, and you can lose money if you give them a free or cheap card while they are on the draw. Use this move thoughtfully.
Typical spots and way to induce are:

Cbet the flop then check the turn. I get a truck load of action this way and it protects your missed AK type hands.

Underbet. Say the pot is $210 on the flop and you bet $75, this will frequently induce just the action you desire.

Overbet. Frequently, an oppenent will see this as weakness but of course you might just push your oppentent out of the hand.

Just checking the flop will frequently have aggesive oppents building the pot for you where many times they would be folding.

A minimum raise from late position will often induce.

Just calling raises versus an aggressive villian. Use a timing tell to feign weakness for optimal results. In the example below I took just an extra second or two before calling.

GG GL

PokerStars Game #27860270505: Tournament #160529379, $8.00+$0.80 Hold'em No Limit - Level XI (125/250) - 2009/05/05 17:52:31 ET
Table '160529379 147' 9-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 1: Trap_Door04 (14480 in chips)
Seat 2: hokumfool (11775 in chips)
Seat 3: superjokke (4920 in chips)
Seat 4: jackthuca (9890 in chips)
Seat 5: Goggen_S (3732 in chips)
Seat 6: Zeifod (19430 in chips)
Seat 7: bullets911 (19502 in chips)
Seat 8: JackTheRipa (17962 in chips)
Seat 9: funtas1 (7974 in chips)
Trap_Door04: posts the ante 30
hokumfool: posts the ante 30
superjokke: posts the ante 30
jackthuca: posts the ante 30
Goggen_S: posts the ante 30
Zeifod: posts the ante 30
bullets911: posts the ante 30
JackTheRipa: posts the ante 30
funtas1: posts the ante 30
bullets911: posts small blind 125
JackTheRipa: posts big blind 250
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to hokumfool [As Ad]
funtas1: folds
Trap_Door04: calls 250
hokumfool: raises 500 to 750
superjokke: folds
jackthuca: folds
Goggen_S: folds
Zeifod: folds
bullets911: folds
JackTheRipa: folds
Trap_Door04: calls 500
*** FLOP *** [6d Ah 4c]
Trap_Door04: bets 1000
hokumfool: calls 1000
*** TURN *** [6d Ah 4c] [Js]
Trap_Door04: bets 1000
hokumfool: calls 1000
*** RIVER *** [6d Ah 4c Js] [8d]
Trap_Door04: bets 11700 and is all-in
hokumfool: calls 8995 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (2705) returned to Trap_Door04
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Trap_Door04: shows [Qh Kc] (high card Ace)
hokumfool: shows [As Ad] (three of a kind, Aces)
hokumfool collected 24135 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 24135 | Rake 0
Board [6d Ah 4c Js 8d]
Seat 1: Trap_Door04 showed [Qh Kc] and lost with high card Ace
Seat 2: hokumfool showed [As Ad] and won (24135) with three of a kind, Aces
Seat 3: superjokke folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: jackthuca folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: Goggen_S folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: Zeifod (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: bullets911 (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 8: JackTheRipa (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 9: funtas1 folded before Flop (didn't bet)

tough game...

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