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Old 12-25-2005, 10:17 AM
pzhon pzhon is offline
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Default Re: Calculating How Much to cont bet.

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My average hand goes something like this.. raise pf, fire pot sized cont bet regardless of if i hit or not.(on most flops)

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Wow. My typical hand is to fold preflop, but do whatever works for you. <font color="white">Yes, I know what you mean.</font>

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Am i giving up to much on flops that ive missed and get called?

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That depends on the range of hands you raise and what your opponents do. (That you get to make a continuation bet means you weren't reraised preflop, and no one bet into you on the flop. That gives you information already, but the information doepends on your opponents.) In general, you are probably betting too much on the flop by betting the pot, since a 2/3 pot bet will let you take it down when no one has anything.

On a dryer flop, you can bet less. Don't assume your opponent always has any possible draw, or that you need to bet enough on the flop to make it incorrect for your opponent to draw.

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Should i be adjusting the size of my bets? Looking at the texture of the flop and making different sized bets on different flops? will that give to much information away?

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Yes, you should be making different sizes of bets on different flops, and you should sometimes not make a continuation bet at all. You should even make different sizes of bets depending on what you have and the stack sizes since the size of your bets will affect which hands call/raise and how much money is left on later streets.

This will give away some information. So does raising preflop. However, if you vary the sizes of your bet in a careful fashion, the information you give away will be less valuable than your benefits from varying the sizes of your bets.
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