why you should squash the "what does betting accomplish" line in ssnl

[snowbank]

Way too many ssnlers throw this around for no reason and use it as their reasoning for why they should check, check, check, check all day long with their hands. Their reasoning being that anything that they beat folds, so "what's the point of betting." YOU HAVE THE BEST HAND!!! Put your money in while you're ahead.

Yes, there are situations where betting is not the best play, because worse hands can't call, but they can bluff you. You need to realize where these spots are though. Many people are using this incorrectly in ssnl imo. Instead of betting and winning the pot with a strong hand, they are checking and often getting behind, and then calling when you are behind and playing the rest of the hand behind, and having no idea where you are at since you didn't bet the flop when you had control of the hand. Instead of forcing your opponent to call when behind, you make it VERY easy to play against YOU.

Instead of making it hard for your opponents to play you, you are making it easy for them, and making it hard for youself to play your hand. You check a hand because you think "if I bet they fold", and then when turn/river comes and they play back at you, since you "trapped" them, your often trapping yourself since you have no idea where you are at, and your line is often counterproductive if used incorrectly which it seems like it is the majority of the time when used in ssnl.

Again, it's not always wrong to check to induce a bet from a worse hand, but don't just convince youself to check the best hand because of that statement, and not be able to think for yourself why you are actually checking, and what it's going to do to you the rest of the hand.

I don't know if I did a great job of explaining my point because it's real late. I won't get crazy in depth, I'll let some other people chime in. Don't make yourself easy to play against. You are losing huge value often(short-term, but mostly long-term) using this line that many people sell off as the way to play because they don't know what benefits another way of playing brings.