Poker Strategies
After receiving pocket cards, you are immediately faced with a choice: play your cards and either raise or call the blinds, or fold.
Practice Matters
The bottom line with profitable 4-bet bluffing
The bottom line with profitable 4-bet bluffing is that you want to ideally look for opponents that 3-bet too wide, and don't re-defend their 3-bets enough. Once you start getting over an 8% 3-betting range, you can find a lot of profitable 4-bet bluffing opportunities. As your opponents get better, they will of course understand your 4-bet bluffing range is going to widen and jam slightly wider or call accordingly. However, most opponents at micro and small stakes don't adjust to this well. At micro stakes, you won't have as many aggressive 3-bettors, but they are still there, and those are the people you need to target.
4-bet Bluff Sizing
4-bet Bluff Sizing When effective stacks are close to 100 BBs, then between 22––25% of your stack size is an ideal 3-bet bluff sizing. This will allow you to get away from most hands if you are jammed on. When effective stacks are over 100 BBs to about 150 BBs, then 4-bet to roughly 2.8––3.7x your opponent’s 3-bet sizing. When stack sizes get over that size, don't look to 4-bet bluff very often since your opponent’s 4-bet calling range will begin to widen. You should instead be widening your 4-bet value range, preferably in position of course. Also you can look to 4-bet ISO in position more to apply maximum pressure versus your opponent’s range.