The delayed c-bet

[Gurravasa]

As usual when a poker magazine occasionally publish an strategyarticle about SH-limit Hold'em poker it's very basic and mostly explain the difference from NL Hold'em. The article was written by John Vorhaus. I haven't read his books but from what I've heard both his books and himself has a pretty bad reputation.

Anyway next to the article there was a small text about "the delayd c-bet". I assume it was the same author since the text had no byline. The idea is that when you're HU in position on the flop and you raised preflop you should check the flop and bet after villain checks on turn.

The reasoning is that villain will call many hands anyway, but if we wait to the turn he is more likely to fold for 1BB. Even thou it's not mentioned I assume that since the author clearly wants villain to fold that he suggest that we do this when we don't have a hand.

Many questions are left unanswered in this article, for instance how to balance this play? If we only check flop with air even mediocre opponents will pick that up after a while and start donking turn with all sorts of hands. So we need to check flop with strong hands as well I suppose. Also how do we know we don't have the best hand on the flop? If we raised preflop we usually have something and if villain didn't hit the flop we could have the best hand and bet for value.

Do you guys ever use this "delayed c-bet" and if you do in what situations?