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basic Continuation betting
A continuation bet is a bet which a player makes on the flop, after they raised with there hand pre flop.
A lot of players know what a Cbet is, but make mistakes by cbetting too much or not enough.
If you are cbetting 80-100% flops, this is going to be a losing play in the long run, once players note that you cbet 80%+ of flops, they know you have nothing most of the time because you only flop a hand 1/3 of the time. So you will get exploited by villains floating and raising you on the flop knowing you are not strong.
If you don’t cbet enough around 30-50%, villain now knows that you will most likely only cbet when you flop some sort of hand/draw, and can play against you range well.
The way to decide if you should cbet factor on a lot of things such as, what type of player they are, how much they fold, history etc etc. For this thread I am just going to assume players are okay regs and I will focus on good flops and Bad flops to bet.
Example 1)
Stacks are 100bb DEEP
We have AKo we raise in middle position and get called on the Button.
Flop: Q28r
This is a great flop to cbet, very dry, it hits our range pretty well, no draws. This will most likely have missed the buttons too and they will may have a hard time playing smaller PP as they may face further barrels on the turn and we can fold out all there trash. We are also OOP and it makes the hand simpler to play, if you are thinking about check calling, you should just bet instead, you have initiative and it reduces the chance of getting bluffed on later streets + increasing fold equity.
Example 2)
Stacks are 10bb DEEP
We have AKo we raise in middle position and get called on the Button.
Flop: 2h 9h 3s
This is not a great board to cbet, we are OOP, we have no equity in the hand and are drawing to 6 outs. Although board has most likely missed villain range, they are never folding any PPs, and are going to float you a lot more since they have position and make your life difficult, when you check a blank turn and they just fire and take it down. Cbetting here without good reads on a player is just going to be a losing play.
If on the same flop you have 33, and flop a cbet, this is a perfect spot to cbet, for all the reasons I said above, you will not get credit. Instead of slow playing thinking “they have two overs ill let them catch up”, just bet as they are going to call more often then not.
In Position.
example 3)
We are 100bb deep
One limper, we raised Ah Ks on the button and the limper calls.
Flop: 2h 9h 3s
Not the best flop for our hand, but we have position, the limper checks. This flop does not hit our perceived range well, so we are most likely to get called pretty light with overcards, PP and other rubbish like Ax. The times we get check-raised we have to fold, because we have nothing. Instead I would like to go with a “delayed cbet”. This is where we bet most turns. Any 10JKQA and heart that hits on the turn, we can bet to make our villain fold there PP and other high card hands on the turn, the times when we are called, we have outs to our nut flush, and we can barrel a lot or rivers to get them to fold there weak hands.
If on the same flop we flop a set, we should always bet this flop, for the reasons said above, it does not hit our perceived range, we are going to get called down light, and when we get c-r, we can just flat and let villain bluff/value bet weaker hands into us.