Techniques to Bluff at poker

To bluff is an important element in poker: a good player who never bluffs will win less than a good player who often bluffs. It consists in making your opponents folding when they have better hand than you. There are many kinds of bluff in poker:

- Pure Bluff: when you bluff with an extremely weak hand and without possibility of considerable improvement.
- Semi-Bluff: when you raise with a worthless hand but with a strong potential of improvement.

How to bluff?
The first error to be avoided is to bluff too often. Do not always bluff the same players, and do not try to fight for small unimportant pots: take advantage of it to persuade your opponents that you are a lock by checking / folding, your future bluffs on big pots will be more credible.
Second thing, be exactly as if you had a better hand. Do not forget that your opponents always keep an eye on you, if they notice an unusual action, they could indeed pay you with an average game: we call it a "Nice call".

Some basic principles too are to be kept in mind: in the flop, the total bluff is misadvised because if after you raise and a player “calls”, the bluff is certainly lost. On the other hand, the pure bluff is more recommended than the semi-bluff at river. To succeed your bluff, errors which risk revealing your strategy are to be avoided as:

1) to bluff too often
2) to bluff players who call all the time for anything
3) to bluff more than 3 players
4) to bluff when the pot is not worth
5) to continue to bluff against the same person while he already get you once
6) to bluff when we feel that the opponent has a strong hand.