(27t) C-betting early

[Mike MacIntosh]

I included an example for this GENERAL question.

What kind of flops do you cbet?

What is the size of you cbet?

I have noticed a forum trend of betting 2/3 or 3/4 the pot when we have a hand (imagine we have AA or KK here), and 1/2 pot bet when we have nothing (like here).

This makes our hands unbelievably easy to read. Thoughts?

PokerStars Tournament, Big Blind is t20 (9 handed) Converter on pregopoker.com

UTG (t1500)
UTG+1 (t1500)
Hero (t1500)
MP2 (t1480)
MP3 (t1530)
CO (t1490)
Button (t1460)
SB (t1540)
BB (t1500)

Preflop: Hero is in MP1 with K[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] A[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]
UTG calls t20, <font color="gray">UTG+1 folds</font>, <font color="red">Hero raises to t80</font>, <font color="gray">MP2 folds</font>, <font color="gray">MP3 folds</font>, <font color="gray">CO folds</font>, <font color="gray">Button folds</font>, <font color="gray">SB folds</font>, <font color="gray">BB folds</font>, UTG calls t60

Flop: (t190) 7[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] 9[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] 2[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] (2 players)
UTG checks, <font color="red">Hero bets t100</font>

[MEJG2]

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betting 2/3 or 3/4 the pot when we have a hand (imagine we have AA or KK here), and 1/2 pot bet when we have nothing (like here).

This makes our hands unbelievably easy to read.

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Yes this makes you extremely easy to read - Avoid doing this.

The best advice I can give is, based on your preflop action, does it make sense that you hit the flop.

If you raised from early position and an A or K flops, it's believable you have an A or K.

But your cbets should also depend on who else is in the hand and what range you put them on and how they will react to you betting at the pot. I wouldn't c-bet into 3 or 4 callers without a hand. It really depends on the situation.

I probably would take a free card on this flop. I have a unknown utg limp caller and I am holding A high, with no real need to build a pot in level 1.

Keep posting hands until you get a feel for the right time to cbet and not cbet.

[xPeru]

Yep, Mike if you posted a hand occasionally ... lol.

I try not to c-bet this early. If I miss, I'm happy to give it up while I've got nothing invested. Unless PF has got heavy eg limp, limp, limp, raise, reraise, reraise, call. Then I'm shoving any flop if &lt;30% of villain's stack is invested.

[Oubliette]

I cbet less in sngs than i do in cash games, mostly bc ppl donking around and floating me is more costly, leak? I usually try to rep an overpair or AK, like MEJG2 noted, since to be honest thats a large part of my raising range anyway. Just be aware of the board texture and your opponent. I cbet less frequently on drawy boards and middle straight cards, 789 etc. that stuff tends to hit calling hands more than raising hands.

Actually the best advice i can give you is to play some cash games, and develop your postflop skills a bit if you havent already. Call me crazy, but i know cash games made me a better snger.