JCT: In a recent post, I explained my "go-thru" style of
betting where I play quality cards that I'm willing to bet 7
bets and go through to the river. This ensures a minimum
automatic number of bluffs.

I also explained the pounce style of betting with precisely
the minimum number of chips. I do this to project an
aggressive demeanor at all times.

When do you want to appear week and appear strong?
You want to seem weak when you are strong trying to entice a
call and win an extra bet.
You want to seem strong when you are weak trying to entice a
fold and win an extra pot.
So which demeanor would you rather practice all the time?
Enticing extra bets or enticing extra pots?

So it pays to always bet with exaggerated authority,
muttering "yeehaa, my card," before each bet.

One last thing I do to add to my overall intent to entice
folds to win pots is showdown all my beautiful hands. Any
time I have beauties (that most people would also have
played in the same way so you're not giving up much, it's
what and how you play your weak cards that reveal useful
information) I turn them up. Every time a guy makes a good
fold, I show him it was a good fold. I always try to
inculcate the impression that I only play quality cards and
I want them feeling good about folding almost every time.
Needless to say, once in a while I forget to the show my
hand and only you and I know that that's because I thought
it was probably a loser and I didn't want to make them feel
bad about folding.

So, when you consider the go-thru style of play, you have to
admit that the constant aggressive betting style and the
100% showing of winning hands and the 100% showing of
beautiful losing hands and the 0% showing of ugly winning
hands has to help.

So, the premise is that there is almost nothing to be gained
by hiding your winning cards and when you are playing a go-
thru style of betting, showing your beauties and always
betting aggressively is an important part of the technique.

And there's no greater feeling in limit poker that putting
in that River bet into two or even three opponents and
seeing them all fold that 1/15th of the time when they all
had nothing so you can win that 20-bet pot. Imagine the
beauty of knowing you'll be forced to make a certain number
of bluffs automatically. I appreciate it.

Sure there are those inspired times to bluff but not that
many in one evening. There are far more times I'm putting in
money on "go thru" bluff than an inspired one.

So now you know why I show my winning and beautiful losing
cards, the only person I know of who does.


John C. "The Banking Systems Engineer" Turmel, King of the Paupers, Great
Canadian Gambler, Author of the UNILETS interest-free time-based currency United
Nations C6 recommendation to Governments in the
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