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IlkkaK · Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 10:14 am Post subject: Bare ace bluff OK here?

Here is a situation I had come up today in a PLO tourney, where I think I should have found the courage the make the bare ace bluff, but didn't.

I'm the SB with the bare ace, three players see the ragged flop. It is checked through. Turn is the same. The river puts the unpaired flush on the board. I have the bare ace. I check, the next player bets the pot, the third one calls. My stack is about twice the pot, others have me covered.

I think that I really should try the bare ace bluff here but coward out, thinking that I can't bluff both players. Should I have? The bettor turns ten-high flush, the caller has nada.

joker_3311 · High Card Joined: 17 Mar 2008 Posts: 9

Yea man fire away. The only raise that takes it is a pot sized one.
Then again the player might have been a total donkey and call you
anyway. So you may have saved some valuable chips. BTW how did
you place in the tourny?

IlkkaK · Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 6:34 pm Post subject:

I finished near the bubble when I went all in short stacked with flopped trips, and the other guy got a runner runner that put three of a kind on the board, giving him a full house and me just my trips. But I had lucked out a few hands before, doubling up on a total bluff raise preflop with rags, and one guy called with aces, but I got two pair. So it was just justice.

But away from the bad beat story and back to the actual question. If my stack was much less than pot-sized, obviously the raise would be stupid. With a huge stack, the raise would be equally obviously correct. So where exactly does the answer change? It would be interesting to read an analysis of where the stack size inflection points are located in situations such as this one.

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