* The opponent's betting pattern suggests the opponent may have a drawing hand and the bluff provides unfavorable pot odds to the opponent for chasing the draw.

If the player bets the size of the pot on a pure bluff, the bluff will have a positive expectation if the probability of being called is less than 50 %.

On top of the old Rancho Milpitas main ranch house site, at the edge of a small bluff less than a mile from and overlooking the old mission, Hearst hired Morgan to build a new ranch headquarters.

After descending the bluff the trail splits for less than a kilometre, giving the hiker the option of traversing

A late bluff, on the other hand, is usually less voluntary ; the player is often unwilling to challenge a bid, but as a higher bid is even more likely to be incorrect it is even less appealing.

The dominant natural feature of Peterhof Grand Palace is a sixteen-meter-high bluff lying less than a hundred meters from the shore.

Whether this has ever been tested or was just a bluff is unknown, but considering that his opponent wasn't real, much less alive, Mr. Terrific would have had no moral difficulties in using this option if it came down to it.

His bluff and straightforward manner, and the knowledge that with him the deed was ready to follow the word, enabled him at once to inspire confidence and to overawe less masterful rivals.

Note that bluffs can be especially powerful in high-low split games, because a player making a successful bluff wins the whole pot rather than having to share it.

According to David Sklansky, game theory shows that a player should bluff a percentage of the time equal to his opponent's pot odds to call the bluff.

For example, in the final betting round, if the pot is $ 30 and a player is contemplating a $ 30 bet ( which will give his opponent 2-to-1 pot odds for the call ), the player should bluff half as often as he would bet for value ( one out of three times ).

A player making a pure bluff believes he can win the pot only if all opponents fold.

The pot odds for a bluff are the ratio of the size of the bluff to the pot.

A pure bluff has a positive expectation ( will be profitable in the long run ) when the probability of being called by an opponent is lower than the pot odds for the bluff.

For example, suppose that after all the cards are out, a player holding a busted drawing hand decides that the only way to win the pot is to make a pure bluff.

David Sklansky, in his book The Theory of Poker, states " Mathematically, the optimal bluffing strategy is to bluff in such a way that the chances against your bluffing are identical to the pot odds your opponent is getting.

The pot is currently 30 dollars, and Worm is contemplating a 30 dollar bluff on the river.

If Worm does bluff in this situation, he is giving Mike 2-to-1 pot odds to call with his two pair ( 10's and 2's ).

Where s is equal to the percentage of the pot that Worm is bluff betting with and x is equal to the percentage of busted draws Worm should be bluffing with to bluff optimally.

Opponents who continue to bet after a player is all in can still bluff each other out of the side pot, which is also to the all in player's advantage since players who fold out of the side pot also reduce competition for the main pot.

of the time in order to make the odds 3-to-1 against a bluff.

* Fewer opponents who must fold to the bluff.

Even if Bullshit, bluff or BS or I Doubt is NOT yelled, just by simply turning over an opponent's hand signifies that they think their opponents last card play was Bluff ( Bullshit ) or the incorrect card to be played

On the other hand, bots have some significant disadvantages-for example, it is very difficult for a bot to accurately read a bluff or adjust to the strategy of opponents the way humans can.

Cricket writer, Colin Bateman, noted " Fletcher was a tough cookie, a shrewd man who could bluff opponents like the most disarming of poker players.

It's also possible to bluff opponents into expecting cards that aren't there, or to surprise the competition with novel decks that nobody is prepared for.

There were seven of them, enough for a show of strength -- to run a bluff.

They stayed in their own world on the bluff, waiting for letters and the peddler, bringing the news.

Udall, who comes from one of the Mormon first-families of Arizona, is a bluff, plain-spoken man with a lust for politics and a habit of landing right in the middle of the fight.

It would be a dangerous illusion to think that, if war once starts, it will come to an early end even if a success on any one of the several fronts on which it will be engaged should have been secured " Ribbentrop for his part told Hitler that Chamberlain's letter was just a bluff, and urged his master to call it.

This might be done, for example, when the first player believes that an opponent has an inferior hand and will not call a direct bet, but that he may attempt to bluff, allowing the first player to win more money than he would by betting straightforwardly.

A bet for value is in contrast to a bluff or a protection bet ( though some bets may have a combination of these motives ).

A protection play differs from a bluff in that the bluff can win only when the opponent folds, while protection bet is made with a hand that is likely to win a showdown, but isn't strong enough for slow playing.

Because it occupies a substantial bluff rising from the Mississippi River, the site of Memphis is a natural location for settlement.

In any case, as host Peter Marshall explains at the beginning of the Secret Square game, the celebrities are briefed prior to show to help them with bluff answers, but they are otherwise hearing the actual questions for the first time as they are asked on air.

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A bluff that, because of its moist crevices, is believed to be an important site for California slender salamanders.

The opponent will have a positive expectation for calling the bluff if the opponent believes the probability the player is bluffing is at least 33 %.

The county is named after a prominent bluff that served as a landmark for 19th-century pioneers traveling along the Oregon Trail.

In 1819, on what is now Picnic Island on the south bank of the Minnesota River, Colonel Henry Leavenworth built a stockade fort called " St. Peter's Cantonment " or " New Hope ," where materials were assembled for the construction of Fort Snelling to be built on the bluff on the north bank.

The VFA called the Tigers ' bluff, and appointed Allen as umpire for the match, meaning that the Grand Final was scratched and North Melbourne won the premiership on forfeit.