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Message: [QUOTE="Stu_Ungar, post: 1060511, member: 39779"] I was playing 10NL today and made a 3-bet bluff. Villain was in middle position and opened for 3BB I re-raised AJs from late position. Everyone else folded. The villain called. Now from the way he was playing, he was very tight. He was happy to open with looser hands in middle but would only call with something very strong like AK, QQ, JJ He would reraise with AA, KK So I reraised because I felt that I could read him. Had he reraised I was out of there! Now came the flop A 6 xs So here I had TP and a backdoor flush draw. He checks to me and I raise 3/4 pot. He reraises. Now I am very sure he has AK so my pair is no good. The flush is a real long shot. I should really fold but I decide to make a play and raise all-in The guy asks if I made a set of 6's. He thinks and thinks and the time bank almost runs out. He then calls. The turn and river were blanks so he wins. He comments that he was genuinely surprised to have won that hand, and was seriously considering laying it down. Everyone at the table berated my play .. started asking if I even knew how to play poker etc etc. However I am glad I made this play, and vow never to do it again!! The reason is this. 1). Firstly the guy was predictable.. I knew exactly what he had by the flop. 2). I had been playing the table for about an hour and a half.. and my table image was pretty solid. 3). If anyone was going to make that lay down.. it was this guy.. so I have proved to myself that trying to bluff someone off a hand in 10NL is not a good idea. 4.) I have also figured that had I hit a set and made the same big raise.. it would also have been called, so playing passively after the flop to prevent loosing customers isn't always necessary!! 5.) What exactly was I representing anyway? This made me think too.. a set of 6's A set of A's?? Had I had that hand.. I wouldn't have played it that way anyway.. so the 'story of the hand' didn't really make any sense either! So I think by making the move .. I learned quite a bit.. as for the money.. within an hour I was in profit again!! What made me chuckle a little was the vigor with which people commented on my play.. it was as though by highlighting the faults, they were somehow better players. I said nothing as I don't chat!!!. Now I am sure that kind of play works at higher levels.. although the crafting of my bluff was poor.. but at 10NL, its not a profitable move. [/QUOTE]

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