CAREFUL WITH THE BLUFFERS!

One of the more difficult things in poker is to find out when your opponents are bluffing, or in other words, when they are trying to make you think that they are holding good cards when the truth is they don’t have anything. The biggest problem occurs when you really have a hand with possibilities but you become intimidated by them and fold. You will not only be losing a lot of money, but you will be also ashamed in front of the whole table!

One good way to prevent being the victim of bluffing is paying a lot of attention to the tendencies previously showed by your opponents, especially regarding their betting style. Moreover, if a player had been checking during the previous betting rounds and suddenly in the last one decides to increase the bet, you will have to consider the possibility that he may be bluffing.

Other good idea, which is only valid when the poker hand is being very loose because everybody is betting hard and very often, is folding at the early stage of the hand if you don’t really have good cards and focus on observing the behaviour of your opponents. Let others to catch the bluffers! All the information you can learn only by observing them it can be very beneficial when playing again with them in the future.

Therefore, next time you are playing the popular cards game in both online poker rooms and in the land based casinos, don’t forget those simple tricks that will help you to find out who is bluffing!