Small things, but it does help a lot in gaming your opponents. To run off successively a super aggressive player, slow play is better than a bluff. A poorly timed bluff, damp squib that fizzles and dies. Whereas a well timed bluff is a strong weapon,timing is very very important and very essential factor for an effective bluff and so is your position the table.

Your position on the table helps to provide all the information about the relative strength and weakness around you,so always be careful and be aware of your position on the betting table. For the player who has to act before you ,bluff is the strongest weapon for him for he has to pass on information about hand before you take any step.

Particularly, in tournaments there are different stages,a stage where the situation seems to be tensed and tight and sometimes it may look like it is loosening. Of course, no one wants to loose money, so right before the bubble every player tries to get very tight in the game.

On medium chips, stack players hope they will win, and make money, but when they get strangled in a hand, it is disastrous, they are likely to fold in the face of strength than they would be in another game. Although it is difficult to presume what may happen the game on the cash table also becomes tight or loose.

On a loose aggressive table it is good to bet to further make the game more tight, but if you notice that your table is going through a tight stage then it is better to loosen up and make a move.

In some circumstances your image on the table may conspire to make you like a very loosen player, though you are not at all player who is at loss. You seem to be a loosen player in case you take a lot of pots without showing your cards or fold a lot in big pots.

Regardless of the correctness of your play,other players think you as a looser, so it is not the right time to bluff.

On the other hand, sometimes in a similar circumstance you may look very tight. You have to fold all your good pockets after the flop and try to get a deal, a long strong of garbage, before the flop that you fold ,shows your position to be stiff, hard like a rock which cannot be blown or hit. Your opponents observes your play and think that you have monsters when you finally show you strength, with a strong position you can easily bluff and dodge the other players.

Whether you play for $5 or $5 million make use of the psychology of bluffing. Texas hold’em can be best played by creating pressure or you can say it a high pressure game. Bluffing and pressurizing is very essential for a good bet so try to take the full advantage of this psychology of bluffing.