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Caught in the Middle: The Value Bet Bluff

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Recently, I was playing an online tournament when an interesting spot came up — a three-way hand in which I was caught in the middle, so to speak, both position-wise and in terms of hand strength.

At the 30/60 level with effective stacks of 10,000, a player opened from early position to 210, the player on the button called and so did I in the small blind with . Then after a flop of , the action checked all of the way around.

Good players will decline to continuation bet here with enough combos to prevent themselves from being too capped on the turn and blown off their hands.