Quote Originally Posted by RHCNNN
Hmmm.. I don't really get how the check-raise bluff is a great play against over-aggro players. Because if you are bluffing with no outs then what are you going to do if he calls your cute little check-raise? And what if your check-raise is a big fat one and he still calls? Now you commited a whole bunch of chips to a pot with no outs.

I'm not saying you are wrong, but this is the way I think when I decide to exclude this play... am I looking at this wrong?
Usually when I c/r bluff I do have outs, but if I don't then I have a good read that they can't call my raise. Sometimes if I make the call from the SB/BB from a PFR and the flop comes like KK9, I often time checkraise here unless I know the player well. I check raise a lot when I'm at an aggro table, and after they realize that I'm doing a lot of c/ring they either start to come back over the top (good when I have the nuts) or they will give me a lot of free cards. Both are pretty good results for me.

They key when playing shorthanded is to seem more out of line than you actually are. I'm normally playing a lot of small pots and splashing around, and then somebody gets fed up and wants to play a big pot with me when I've got the nuts. It's a fun cycle.