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To Catch a Bluff: Looking Back at a Hand of 100NL

Sometimes the cards that turn up in the end don't reveal too much. Other times they explain everything.

While a hand is playing out, it can be a challenge to know what hands you should bluff with, or what are the hands with which you can make a hero call. These things can be hard to realize in the heat of the moment, though much easier to figure out in retrospect.

Making big calls isn't always about having a set or two pair, if you have a key card in your hand. The following hand provides us an illustration of that point — a hand that in retrospect also provides us lessons concerning both (1) when not to bluff and (2) when to make such big, bluff-catching calls.