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Well actually I might not cont bet this flop, but a raise will at least thin the field.

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Here's why I didn't raise, and I'm not saying it's a good reason, but it is a reason!

In the past I was playing AK aggressively, raising it from any position in the early levels, then c-betting safe looking flops and it seemed more often than not I was getting played back at and always had a pretty damaged stack. Lately, playing it more passively has not been hurting my stack, but I guess it hasn't been helping it, so I'm sure I've been passing up some +EV situations by not raising it.

My question is, what do you raise it up to at this level? 90-100? Then c-bet around half the pot on a safe looking flop?

What if it's level one? You still need to bump it to 60-75 to thin the field, then how much are you c-betting it?