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Howard Lederer on When to Bluff New videos DAILY: https://bigth.ink/youtube Join Big Think Edge for exclusive videos: https://bigth.ink/Edge ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Poker Professor advises a careful approach to overstating your hand. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TRANSCRIPT: Lederer: I actually think people overvalue being unpredictable and mixing their play up and taking negative expectation plays. I think poker is a game where you’re constantly trying to find the right play, and you should be doing it really in most hands. But, you know, the right play also does include plays that may not work out. I mean, if there is $1,000 in the pot and there’s a situation where a flush is hit and you’re going to bet $1,000, you know, if you’re going to have the flush there a fair amount of the time, you are absolutely obligated in that situation to bluff, so if you’re going to have a flush 66% of the time that you bet there, that’s going to give your opponent just the right price to either call or fold, right? So, if you never bluff, then you’re just not betting at that pot enough. If every time you had the straight draw and the flush hits and you just check and lose the pot. So, what poker is all about is a certain percentage of your bets in that situation are going to be bluffs. The bad bluffs… so, you’re going to have to check some times. You’re going to mis

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