Basic Theory - Raising preflop

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well, you can probably give yourself a rebate on c-bets and not give anything away by balancing it with the times your practicing pot control.

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Sorry I don't follow what you mean. Could you elaborate please?

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He means that there will occasionally be hands that you're betting for value but that you don't want to make a giant pot with - something like AJ in a raised pot on an AT4 rainbow board. With those hands, you might want to make a slightly smaller bet on the flop so that the pot stays smaller all along. If you're occasionally making bets somewhat less than pot for value, then you can make your c-bets somewhat less than pot and not have it be a total giveaway, although you're probably still leaking a little information. Whether most of your opponents will notice that at these levels is a good question (probably not, in most cases.)