The Frogsplash

A play which I like to make is called the back-raise bluff. It is almost never used, and as far as I know no other player has defined what it is and how it can be used.

So i'm going to call it the "Frogsplash" because you come out of nowhere with no hand. (Bad name, bad description, overall bad, but it's badass)

The play requires you to be seen as very tight. And you and all of your opponents have to be deep in order for this to work. Around 300 big blinds deep which is deeeeeeeeep.

A back-raise is when, Player A raises, Player B calls, Player C re-raises(squeezes), Player A folds, Player B re-re-raises(back-raise).

A back-raise bluff or Frogsplash is where you make this play with a marginal hand.

It is most effective with a suited connectors such as 98s.

This is a situation which occured where it was a profitable play to make.

$1/$2 Villian A - $198, Villian B - $249, Hero - $311, Villian C - $349

Villian A limps in UTG+1, and Villian B on the button makes it $8 to go. I thought that the button was isolating the limper so I decided to make a marginal call out of position with a 75s. Villian C who had been playing a solid-laggy game made it $30 to play. Both villians foldd and it was on me with a very bad hand in the situation, but it was very possible he would make this play with air on occassions.

I thought about folding, (probably the best play), calling (Probably the worst play), and raising. A raise would indicate that I have a monster, AA/KK and on rare occassions I'd show up with QQ/AK. I'd figure that it's so likely he's squeezing thats it was a profitable play to make in the situation. So I pumped it to $99 commiting a third of my stack to the pot.

The villian called time and typed, "sigh", "JJ", "nh" and folded.

This back-raise is almost never a bluff that infact it's a very good spot to bluff at.

So all-in this is a very high-risk, high reward play thats is a good play to have in your arsenal.

I recommend to almost never use it unless the conditions are met.

- The squeezer, is in fact a squeezer and there's a very high % that he's bluffing with air

- Your both deep, so you can fold to a 5bet and type in "sigh, KK, you had it" in the chat box lmao

- You have balls

The Frogsplash, you heard it here first

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