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Getting Out of Line: Jonathan Little Flops Nothing, Decides to Run a Bluff

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This hand comes from early in a $1,000 buy-in World Series of Poker event and finds me being somewhat unsure of my decisions on each postflop street. Tell me what you think as you play along.

I have a stack of about 25,000 at 100/200/25 and watch an older, loose-aggressive player raise to 500 from middle position. I decide to call from the cutoff with .

The flop comes and my opponent leads for 750. Thinking that board doesn't connect very well with his preflop raising range, I choose to raise to 2,000 — a pure bluff, as I haven't much equity at all.