Cbetting on the flop based on number of loose passive fishes.

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Unless I'm for some reason tilting or the table is truly playing loose/passive, then I check this behind pretty much every time. Betting here really doesn't give you very much information at all; unless you have dead-on reads on the players, people are going to call here with anything from str8 draws, to a pair of Jacks with a gutter, to tight/passive players that prefer to check/call top 2, or top and bottom, etc.. Betting on a dry flop with an overpair is IMO -EV.

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Wow Gordo, this surprises me. Can you please go into more detail about why we don't want to charge straight draws, gutters, etc.

Also, at mid-stakes, a c-bet with any 4 cards as the preflop raiser takes down the pot enough on a flop with a texture like this IMO, and I think if we are smoothcalled or raised we certainly gain a lot more information about our villains possible holdings.