When to give up on bluffing

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hello guys i have maybe could be a leak in my game.I think i bluff too much and triple barreling too much its when im in position or in the button and the flop and range is favoring me like a low card maybe 549r so what is the fix or how to adjust when playing with calling stations people tyy
 
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hello guys i have maybe could be a leak in my game.I think i bluff too much and triple barreling too much its when im in position or in the button and the flop and range is favoring me like a low card maybe 549r so what is the fix or how to adjust when playing with calling stations people tyy
Generally you don't want to triple barrel bluff. Triple barell bluffing most of the time comes from having bet a draw on the turn and after it not getting completed on the river, you triple barrel if you find yourself at the bottom of your range (i.e. bluff betting 76s gutshot on the turn and then finding yourself with seven high on the river). But even even in this scenario your bluffing frequency highly depends on how much triple barrel value you have in your range (aka TPTK, overpairs, trips, non-counterfitted two pairs etc), so you can't just blind bet seven-high on the river because you don't have enough showdown value (ESPECIALLY in the scenarios you have much worse hands in your range, though for seven high specifically it is quite rare).

Most of the time you should shut down with huge chunks of your bluffs on turn and then with huge chunks of your bluffs on the river, otherwise you will be severely overbluffing and your opponents will print money just by constantly bluff-catching you. After a cbet-call scenario, you generally want to bet some of your draws on the turn (especially junky or vulnerable draws you can easily fold to a raise), giving up on other bluffs and then just air from the bottom of your range on the river.

You also don't want to bluff junk with showdown value (it is often top high card on the river, though in triple barrel scenarios ace high most of the time has no showdown value, as your opponent's range is going to consist of at least a pair, though depends on the specific scenario you are in).

a low card maybe 549r
They don't really benefit you on the flop, especially IP, it just makes your equities closer to 50-50 if we are talking about a cold call scenario. Against the big blind defense lower cards don't benefit you at all, as BB has a lot of them and the playing field is much more even on these boards.

how to adjust when playing with calling stations people tyy
Not to bluff them or bluff much less than GTO. Your bluffs will just be a waste of money if you don't have fold equity.
 
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