Using "Blocker Bets" and "Fake Blocker Bets"

[Talking Poker]

Well, this is a non-issue because we are only making a fake blocker bet when we have a huge hand.

I've experimented with this a little bit in the past and I think it can be effective, but only if used very sparingly and against the right opponents.

Generally though (against the average opponent that most people reading this are going to be playing against), I think ABC > FPS.

[Wes]

I feel the same way.

I almost never do these blocker, fake blocker bets against people's game which I respect since I think they will just see that bet and raise it a lot and then I feel compelled to call, but I'm generally not sure of what their tendencies are and what they think my calling/raising tendencies would be so I mostly try to avoid the situation by making these feeler type bets.

Right now anyway I feel that the general mantra for the 2+2 crowd is that once you bet weakly, you are forced to call a raise in a ton of scenarios. So perhaps there is room once again for the blocker bet to fold because the games have adapted.

[Zybomb]

wouldn't that make them prime targets for fake blocker bets since they're auto-raising you when you want them to?

[Wes]

well that is the way i think they will react, but i don't know for sure what frequency they will actually bluff there.

[Windbreaker]

[Zybomb]

I thought this was a good segment by Daniel

[herschelw]

I pretty much agree with TP here. Against bad players I make these weak bets with big hands when I know they are stations with bottom pair or similar and will fold to a solid bet but not a larger34/th's pot-ish bet.