The decision on whether you should call a big bet on river (that is, at the last bet, after the last card was shown) is an especially difficult one. While losing a blind or a small bet at the beginning of the game might not affect your stack much, on the river, you might meet some really large bets. It’s at the river that fortunes are won and lost.

In No Limit Texas Hold’em, typically the betting grows exponentially, culminating with the river, where often really large sums are thrown around.

You should play attention at each bet. A good hand on Full Tilt usually doesn’t appear overnight, it is grown. If your opponent made a huge bet on the river, did he raise the bet constantly throughout the game? That is a typical gameplay employed by someone who has a great hand.

You need to be careful at the cards, too. It is possible that he was just checking and calling and at the end, he got a straight or a flush. If this is unlikely or impossible and he suddenly started to raise, it’s possible he was bluffing.

However, you should be careful because even though your opponent might have made a large bet on the river, it doesn’t mean he’s bluffing. It’s best that you use your instincts and notice the patterns that appear in your opponent’s play. Base all your decisions on evidence and not on baseless assumptions.

Calling a big bet on the river might not a good idea if you aren’t certain of anything about the opponent and you know that you can only beat a bluff. You should be prepared for the river from the previous streets. At the earlier streets, you should know what to do in case he has a big bet, or a small bet or a check.

Also, if you want to bluff at the river, it’s not something that is easy to do, because of the size of the pot: many players will not give their share they invested in the pot, so they will call anything almost foolishly. Nevertheless, you can sometimes use some scare cards: when the community cards give the opportunity of someone getting a straight or a flush, which might scare your adversaries enough to give up.

The best time to bluff on the river at the Full Tilt Poker Download website is when you expect that your opponent is also bluffing. You might attack his high bet with another even higher bet and he might fold because he feels that his hand won’t be able to survive against even mediocre cards.