Instead of the continuation bet...
 

Villian was interesting. He was a maniac preflop, (76/35), but postflop he was actually fairly decent. My table image was good, I'd been showing down winners and folding a fair bit preflop, (crappy cards).

I find that against decent postflop players the continuation bet can be a bit obvious. Does anybody else do this? Standard? Boring? Merry Xmas as well to all you guys and gals.

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Preflop: Hero is CO with J[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], T[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img].
UTG calls, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises</font>, <font color="#666666">3 folds</font>, UTG calls.

Flop: (5.50 SB) Q[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], 5[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], 4[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
UTG checks, Hero checks.

Turn: (2.75 BB) Q[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">UTG bets</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises</font>,

Re: Instead of the continuation bet...
 

Against a player that likes to make BIG LAYDOWNS I think this is ok. Especially if you've seen him fold and show his cards to the table, or he's table coaching etc.

Re: Instead of the continuation bet...
 

Are you going to bet the river if he calls?

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I like it against this player assuming you let go with any more action and/or check behind on the river.

Had a player with a similiar MO the other night but even worse. He was 90VPIP; 44PRF but his WtS was 38% and his W$SD was 50. Postflop wasn't great but it was better than his preflop and he was winning at the table I was at. Nice to have him on my right because I could 3bet and face the field with two cold PRF.

Re: Instead of the continuation bet...
 

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Are you going to bet the river if he calls?

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Unless I hit a J or a T that's the last buck in the pot for me.

Re: Instead of the continuation bet...
 

you're getting 5.5-1 on a continuation bet
you're getting less than 2-1 on the turn raise

continuation bets are almost always good because you're always getting great odds

Re: Instead of the continuation bet...
 

did you love the fact that the board paired when you tried this, or did you hate it?

Re: Instead of the continuation bet...
 

It makes no sense. You obviously would've bet a Q on the flop. He's folding air, he's looking you up with any pair.

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you're getting 5.5-1 on a continuation bet
you're getting less than 2-1 on the turn raise

continuation bets are almost always good because you're always getting great odds

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Eh, no. You don't get odds to bet. With the option to bet or check, you have infinite odds since you can take a card for free.

You can, however, give your opponent odds by betting. On the continuation bet, he get 6.5:1 to call and on the turn raise he gets 5.75:1 to call. The turn raise actually puts more pressure on him odds-wise, but all of this is meaningless if Villain was trying to checkraise the flop and is now crushing Hero.

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you're getting 5.5-1 on a continuation bet
you're getting less than 2-1 on the turn raise

continuation bets are almost always good because you're always getting great odds

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Eh, no. You don't get odds to bet. With the option to bet or check, you have infinite odds since you can take a card for free.

You can, however, give your opponent odds by betting. On the continuation bet, he get 6.5:1 to call and on the turn raise he gets 5.75:1 to call. The turn raise actually puts more pressure on him odds-wise, but all of this is meaningless if Villain was trying to checkraise the flop and is now crushing Hero.

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No....

It only has to be profitable a certain amount of times quantified by the odds laid to you on the bluff.

A profitable bluff, will need to work &gt;20% of the time when you have to bet 1 dollar into a 4 dollar pot (EV =.80*-1 + .2*4)

Yessir?