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Bluff catching
How do you play when you can't beat anything other than a bluff? You play it like a bluff catcher.

You usually know how to play a very strong hand and that is you bet for value. You also know how to play a weak hand, you have to fold it or turn it into a bluff. What about when it is something in the middle? For that you often need a bluff catcher.

A bluff catcher is a hand that can beat everything your opponent would bluff with but none of the hands they would value bet with. This tends to be when your opponent has a polarised range (ie. very strong hands or very weak hands, with nothing in the middle) and you have a medium strength hand.

When you have a bluff catcher you can't really bet for value. You will only get called by hands you beat and fold out all the hands you beat. When you elect to check and call with a bluff catcher, you allow your opponent to make a mistake.

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