This is the most difficult situation to face in poker because it forces you to evaluate your hand within your range.

Because they are somewhat balanced between bluffs and value, it forces you to consider folding strong hands and bluffcatching with weak hands. Polarizing means that they have either a bluff or a very strong hand. Good poker players and top players on Replay, such as top 10 players like ilovecat or idiotplayer (and other current players who will go unnamed), make polarizing bets and apply pressure in situations where they know that most decent players will fold too often for the reasons I listed above. But, this general strategy (overfolding against most and calling light against maniacs) has become a lazy default in my game. Also, most players that bluff do so very badly, telling stories that don’t make sense and generally doing it so often that you can call very loose against these specific players. You can feel confident folding really good hands in the knowledge that for every one time that they are bluffing or overvaluing their hand, they have the nuts twenty times. So, against most players it is smart to overfold when they show aggression, meaning that you can safely fold many very strong hands like top pair decent kicker or in some situations even an overpair or two pair.

Most players on Replay and in most poker games do not bluff often enough: they do not check-raise as a bluff often, they do not overbet as a bluff often. This is about a very specific type of situation, so please keep in mind that this question/thought does not refer to most bluffing, especially on Replay.

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