[Scuba Chuck]

Curtains, maybe there's a greater point for me to learn here. When is it a good situation to bet out postflop?

I'd like to write out the answer to this question and be critiqued by those of you who suggest betting out is better.

You bet out here because you might win the pot right here. But betting out here isn't appropriate if I didn't at least have some sort of draw, or semi-made hand. If I fail to win the pot by my betting, then I will have created good pot odds for me to win the hand if shorty pushes, otherwise, I'm folding to other big stacks advances. In short, I'm betting to win. If I don't win, I have a second opportunity to win if shorty plays.

That being said, if I didn't have this type of hand, checking would then be more appropriate, correct?