c-bet article...finally online

[curtains]

Here is a link:

http://www.checkraised.com/forum/ind...?showtopic=550



I dunno, I think its going to be okay for some people and nothing groundbreaking for a lot of more experienced players. Let me know what you think. I think I try to tackle too much stuff in one article. I should just stick to Phil Hellmuth style articles where I talk about one bad beat and how unlucky it was and how great I am for making such a great read yet losing anyway.

[kstatefan10]

curtains u r awesome

[ilya]

Hey,nicearticle,thankyou.Iwwasalittlesurprisedthat yourecommended
checkingbehindontheKQ3flop.Itisverydifficultforyou ropponentstocallyou
withamediumpair.Italsoseemsquitelikelythatsomeonec allingyouwithanAcehas
missed,asmanyplayerswillre-raisewithAKandAQagainstanLPopen.there'sonly
1OESDavailable,andthoughthereareabunchofgutshots,y oudon'tmindcallsfrom
anyofthem.Alsoitseemsthatevenifoneofyouropponentsd oeshaveaKingoraQueen
theywillbemorelikelytocallthantocheck-raise,especiallywithaQueen,soyou
willstillhaveyourchancetohitamonsterontheturn.Idun no,anythoughts?

ilya if you do that again I will personally kill you. It [censored] the forum width. And PISSES ME OFF HAVING TO FIX IT.

[Paul B.]

lol wth ilya?

[ilya]

myfavoritepart,ithinkthisismoreimportantthanmaybey ou'vemadeitseem...QUOTE:

"PSYCHOLOGY: I want to discuss one more factor, which is the psychology of c-betting. I believe that c-betting too often causes players to want to play fewer hands postflop. What happens is that when you think about raising preflop, you also sometimes feel that no matter what you also have to fire a large bet postflop. This way instead of risking like 2.5-3x the BB, you are actually risking something like 7-8x the BB, just by making a simple raise preflop. Thinking about this can often cause players to get sick and tired of raising with marginal hands and can stifle their creativity. When I first started getting decent at poker I would c-bet practically every single flop where I had raised before the flop. As soon as I cut down on this habit and started to use logic to decide my play my results improved dramatically and I felt a lot better about playing more hands because I knew that sometimes I could just check behind the flop and that I didn’t have to lose a ton of chips every time I flopped nothing and my opponent flopped something."

[GreekHouse]

Ilya, I think you need a need keyboard.

Curtains, I agreed with all your examples, so I guess that's good for me. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[cakewalk]

neat.

[runner4life7]

this is a really long article but at first glance I already know its a very well written and solid one and worth reading. i will fully read tomorrow when im sober. thanks for posting this.

[sonneti]

Nice article & very well written [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] ty curtains

[tigerite]

Yes good article that most everyone should read. The hand examples are also very good.