Bluff-inducing checks with success

[bbqsquirrel]

A few months ago in the main strategy forum I brought up a discussion on whether to block-bet or bluff-inducing check on river with a decent non-monster (like TPGK / overpair unimproved).

Back then I was playing full ring. Now that I have switched to 6max where players are more aggressive and bluff more, I find that the bluff-inducing check is rather profitable. Recently I have gotten to the point where I am check-calling river OOP almost indiscriminately when no obvious draws completed. This also explains why my river aggression factor (noted in my checkup thread) is rather low (1.50). Sometimes I also tank into the check-call mode with really good hands against out-of-line opponents.

So far I have got mixed result -- more good than bad though, as more often than not I catch some hideous bluffs. What does everyone else think?

Here are a bunch of hands, some of which posted before:

http://www.pokerhand.org/?897982
Trying to catch someone bluffing with QJ/QT/JT, I guess. Turns out to be wishful thinking.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?889672
JJ, disgusting turn and river. No solid read, except from his limp-cold call 2 bets I put him on a middle PP. It turns out he had 65 instead (lol).
http://www.pokerhand.org/?889677
AK TP against a FD. Opponent is a solid regular. This, my friend, is called a read.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?883789
TT running into 99 flopped top set. As I played more with this opponent I discovered that he was straightforward, not too tight and unimaginative. Unfortunately I didn't know that at the time of the hand.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?883794
Another JJ hand. No reads at that time. Since I showed weakness, I decided that opponent's huge turn bet is a bluff, and on the river I decided that my 5th best flush was good enough for a showdown.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?883790
Opponent is a megadonk that would fold to aggression but would take stab at pots, so I decided to check ahead on the river with my set of Aces. Things worked out charmingly.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?863068
AA, turned 3 spades, rivered a set that I wasn't sure whether it helped -- check-calldown mode.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?877040
K9s, turned 2nd nut flush. I just let my opponent hang himself afterwards.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?877042
Ass straight looking even worse on a brutal river, but I reasoned that opponent could easily have AT/KT/QT/busted spades as well as J9/J8/J7.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?877056
Against multiple opponent I wasn't sure whether my 9-high flush was good, so I again went into check-call mode. Here I was underflushed, but I minimized my damage.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?842243
Turned trip 3s in the blinds, river gave me an underhouse, so again it was check call mode. Somebody made a huge bluff with a missed FD that he picked up on turn.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?839405
Losing everything with 2-pairs, opponent rivered his set.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?839408
I induced a huge turn bet from my opponent after I checked my weak overpair. Why would anybody with a real hand play this way? So far I have represented missed big cards. If opponent has a set wouldn't he want to check and let me catch up a little on the river? If he had a bigger overpair, wouldn't he want to bet smaller so that I would still draw incorrectly to 6 outs? I called another bluff on the river and deservingly scooped up the pot.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?815641
I had Aces up when the guy decided to go apeshit. Turns out he only had a gutshot.

[zenbitz]

I didn't read your hands (too many of them) but in general I like this strategy. My problem with it is that it's hard to balance when you have nothing (i.e, most of the time), also you get value bet to death.

[euphoricism]

Holy hell thats a lot of hands. Cull out the best 3, i have a strong feeling as-is no ones going to look at ANY.

OOP I'm doing a lot of bet, bet, check on the river lines with drawy boards i've certainly picked up a lot of money on the river from hands that would have normally folded to even a minbet. The few times its checked behind, villain had nothing they could call with anyway, so I dont see much value lost.

Occasionally I'll see something like 2nd pair weak kicker which *might* have called a value bet, but I dont worry too much about it.

IN position, however, I found I was getting SMOKED by checking through turns and autocalling rivers. Now on the river I've started to make less AUTO calls. I generally just pause for a second and ask myself "is he serious?" I'm still wrong from time to time, but it has definitely improved.

This advice valid up to 25NL.

[vegascoop]

I use this type of line a lot and have success too. I play more typical TAG against the full stack regs and use this type of line to let the short stack unknowns bluff off their money.