Re: How often to c-bet
It depends a lot on the game.
Most microstakes games have two kinds of players and really not much in between. One plays a tight game and folds too much on the flop and will let you know if he has something. This is great, I raise a lot more hands preflop against these players just to take it down with a cbet on the flop. The cards don't even matter. If they show interrest you can almost always throw your hand away.
The other type of player plays too many hands preflop and calls too many cbets. They play AA the same way as 72o and play a set the same way as air. What they do is check/call. These players I never cbet without a decent hand/draw. I know they'll pay me off when I'm valuebetting and I know they won't fold when I have nothing, so I just bet when I think I have them beat most of the time.
If you find yourself in a game with the first type of player you should cbet almost always. Against the second type of player you should cbet almost never. It's important to find out who's who.
Finally cbetting is less effective in multiway pots or on very draw heavy flops since almost always someone has connected to the flop in some way and finds a reason to call. In these cases I also almost only cbet when I feel I can still win the pot against my opponents calling ranges.
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Edit: 95% is not bad if your opponents are weak and you're often headsup.
With 77 on an AKTr board I cbet if it's headsup. Our opponent doesn't know we don't have AQ. And decent opponents call more often done with small pairs/suited connectors than possibly dominated broadway hands. The big broadways they 3bet sometimes, so a large part of his range is lower cards if he called your PFR.
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