Bluffing into dry sidepots...when dumb people get dumber

[Penguinfan]

If you bluff into a dry side pot you have probably already made a mistake somewhere in the hand, or you have absolulte certainty that you have exactly second best hand of the three and you are risking chips without the possiblitly to win anything.

Daniel Negreanu wrote an excellent article about this a while back. He's a pretty good authority on the subject and I am pretty sure the article ended with something about you deserving a chair broken over your head if you do it.

I still think you are in a hopeless spot and only getting called if you are beat, on top of that it probably doesn't do you much good because the main pot won't be yours anyway.

[Talking Poker]

This is one of my biggest poker pet peeves..... If someone feels like digging up the Negreanu article, I'd love to read it.

(BTW - I realize there are sometimes when this is acceptable, but as has been said, they are few and far between).

[nflchad]

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[Windbreaker]

When people are on the bubble and push all in with two other callers is an instance where bluffing into a dry sidepot is almost NEVER correct. That is one of the worse plays I see in poker...

[Zybomb]

You do stand to win something in these cases though: A big main pot, that you would of otherwise lost! If you have Ace high OBVIOUSLY you are only going to get called when your beat -- but you can get a fold when you're beat too. In the example I gave earlier in this thread, I would not have issue with bluffing into this dry side pot

Again, more times than not its foolish, especially on the bubble

[kkirk1329]

i see people do this ALL the time in the limits i play, and id agree this has got to be the most annoying thing people do in poker.