NLHTP#38 Concepts&Weapons: 39-40

[wallenborn]

Concept #39: You must adapt your play to different-sized bets. If you call a twice-pot bet as often as a half-pot bet, you're in trouble.

Different bet sizes offer significantly different pot and implied odds. Always think about these odds while you play.


Concept #40: Certain flops require certain-sized bets. No matter what hand you hold, your flop bets, on average, should be smaller on drawless flops than on drawy flops

On a drawless board, your opponents, if behind, have little chance to catch up, so they need greater implied odds to justify calling. A smaller bet makes calling incorrectly more attractive and limits your losses if you are called or raised by a better hand.

On a drawy board, your bets should be larger. With a made hand you want to deny these draws profitable odds, and aour bluffs must be larger, too, to mimic the made hands and to discourage calls with weak draws.