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By JAR

Through the years, poker has been taking advantage over other games around the world, reaching everywhere, with its different variants. Nowadays, we can find skilled players everywhere, and there are more becoming who want to join this exciting game, which for some people is only a game, and for some other is a lifestyle.

There are several types of poker, as well as diverse kind of players and infinite play strategies to achieve victory. One of the most popular poker strategies and more used in poker rooms in the world for the game of poker is bluffing.

However there are some players who still do not understand the term. What is bluffing?Basically bluff is to deceive the opponent, or play pretend to have a good hand that actually you don't have. In other words, bluffing or bluff is to make a bet without a good move and therefore with little or no chance of winning the hand, the object is to make your opponent to accept the bid, and then during the game the purpose is to make your opponent throw his hand, and then take the jackpot at stake.

Bluffing makes the game flow much more than other actions, especially actions such as fold, call, or bet the best hand.

This type of strategy of poker. Is very common principally in online casinos, because you don't have the need to see your opponents personally, then, they are often easier to deceive. Bluffing is used in poker tables, and poker live too.

Even when it's a good strategy at times, and can make you earn a lot of money, is not a good idea put it into practice so often, because it may become a weapon that the other players may use to defeat you.

In the case of inexperienced players, it can become a deadly threat because many of them can not read well to their opponents and often yield to the pressure, what conduce them to bet all in, making a very bad move and losing everything.

If you want to implement it, remember to be calm down, obviously we should not let pass any emotion or facial expression. we will be impassable and closed. The idea is other players can not read our movements, feelings or intentions. Should be maintained at all times expressionless face (that's called “poker face”) and must play skillfully.