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lying with your chips instead of your mouth.
means betting or acting stronger than your actual position to make someone else fold when they shouldn't have to.
from from dutch bluffen, to boast or brag, which crossed into american poker slang in the early 1800s when the game itself was still called bluff.
poker mathgood players bluff a fixed percentage, not on feel
tellsmost tells are unconscious, not dramatic movie squints
game theoryoptimal bluffing frequency is a solvable math problem
cold warnuclear deterrence is bluffing at civilization scale