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Bluffing against amateur players in notoriously hard. Did you ever do this and how?
I think categorizing all amateur players as loose-passive calling stations is fairly dangerous and leads to sub-optimal lines and adjustments. When I play against amateur players, I generally shy away from broad, overreaching classifications like “calling station” or “aggro-fish” and try and make my reads more individualised and specific. I think fish playing styles vary a lot, and what I try to do is get inside their head/mind and try to understand the underlying thought process behind their “dumb” moves. So if they calldown my 3barrel in a 3b pot on T7892 with ace-high, rather than just getting frustrated and calling them loose-passive donks, I would try and make inferrences about how they think about Poker. In this case, they probably like the feeling of Hero-calling someone and that’s why they play so cally, so I want to give them the opportunity to make big calls for a lot of $: I might start overbetting more for thin value, and bluffing mostly in small pots. I can also infer they consider me to be aggressive, and they probably percieve my 3betting range to be mostly broadway cards, and my betting range on connected boards to be polarized. Immediately therefore, I can start to construct my ranges to exploit him, by flatting more broadway hands pre and 3betting more T8s 67s type stuff. I can also start depolarizing/tightening my betting ranges so that instead of my betting range on that board being JT+ and all gutters+, it becomes, A7+ and any 8+ out draw.