The turn was the 6c, which would be scary if I didnt have such a solid read on my opponent.

Then again, without that read we never would have gotten to this point. In this case, it was actually a good card for me, since it would be tempting for him to try to represent a flush. I checked again, he bet $59.85 into $88.50, and I called. The river was the Ad, completing another draw that I knew my opponent didnt have. I checked, and after a long pause he checked behind, declining to bluff with 44, no club. My awareness of his very predictable pre-flop tendencies enabled me to win $85 that I never would have gotten with a more standard line. Sniffing Out a Bluff This second hand occurred at a 6-handed $2/$4 table. A loose-passive player open limped in the CO, I raised to $16 with Ad Td on the Button, a tight-aggressive regular called my raise from the SB, and the limper folded. According to my HUD, the CO was 45/15 with a 5% 3-bet and the SB was 20/16 with an 8% 3-bet. Needless to say, the loose-passive open limper was a very weak player,

and Id been raising him aggressively. The SB was surely aware of that dynamic, and his 8% 3-bet told me that he was capable of re-raising without a premium hand. Though not as dramatic as those of my opponent from the previous hand, his stats indicate a strong preference for playing as the pre-flop aggressor. Such players are particularly likely to re-raise out of the blinds, since theyd prefer to end the hand immediately rather than play from out of position post-flop. This all boiled down to the SB having a pretty tight range for cold calling. With a weak player likely to come along to the flop (although he folded this time, the CO called raises after limping more often than not), the SB would be justified in cold calling hands like suited connectors or suited broadway cards. Given his general preference for raising and re-raising, though, I thought it more likely that he would 3-bet those hands because he knew my range was very wide. Thus, I expected his cold calling range to be heavily weighted towards small and medium pairs, much as in the first hand.