Bluffing dry side pots.

[thetank]

Love it, don't think I've ever done it before today.
What do you think?
Blinds 400/800, and 600/1200 next hand.


POKERSTARS GAME #9212453029: TOURNAMENT #46807857, $25+$2 HOLD'EM NO LIMIT - LEVEL X (400/800) - 2007/04/02 - 08:27:46 (ET)
Table '46807857 1' 9-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 3: tigmong (7855 in chips)
Seat 4: GoVo88 (645 in chips)
Seat 6: spaceMe (3330 in chips)
Seat 9: Quentin57 (1670 in chips)
tigmong: posts the ante 50
GoVo88: posts the ante 50
spaceMe: posts the ante 50
Quentin57: posts the ante 50
Quentin57: posts small blind 400
tigmong: posts big blind 800
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to tigmong [ ]
GoVo88: calls 595 and is all-in
spaceMe: calls 800
Quentin57: folds
tigmong: checks
*** FLOP *** [ ]
tigmong: checks
spaceMe: checks
*** TURN *** [ ] []
tigmong: bets 800
spaceMe: folds
*** RIVER *** [ ]

*** SHOW DOWN *** tigmong: shows [ ] (high card Ace) tigmong collected 410 from side pot GoVo88: shows [ ] (two pair, Aces and Tens) GoVo88 collected 2385 from main pot *** SUMMARY *** Total pot 2795 Main pot 2385. Side pot 410. | Rake 0 Board [ ] Seat 3: tigmong (big blind) showed [ ] and won (410) with high card Ace Seat 4: GoVo88 showed [ ] and won (2385) with two pair, Aces and Tens Seat 6: spaceMe (button) folded on the Turn Seat 9: Quentin57 (small blind) folded before Flop

[Ironside]

wasnt dry mate good bet

[thetank]

Maybe , but there was dust in the side pot tho.

I did it to perpetuate the bubble, knowing that the main pot winner would have enough chips to fold his 1200 BB next hand.

[doubleup]

Hmmm not sure that Seat 6 was folding much - you might have got him off a gutshot I suppose.  What do you do if he calls your weakish bet?

[thetank]

I was 80-90% that seat 6 is folding. To say it was a long bubble is an understatement, and his play had been fairly hang on for ITM-ish rather than gambling it up. My read is that he can lay down top pair here.
If he has any kind of strong hand, I know about it immediately via a call/raise, and am unlikely to waste more than the 800 chips I've just put in. (Might nick it if a scare card lands after a flat call, might not)

Made the move not knowing that all-in player had top pair of course. Would have looked slicker if govo88 won the pot with 9 high or something.

[temp0r]

nuttin wrong with that imo.

i got slated at a £5 rebuy last year for about half an hour by some donk for bluffing the side pot with queen high. refered to as a 'dry side pot' by the donk. which was 4x the size of the main pot. lol. must say i think that tilted the table enough for me to take advantage.