Originally Posted by a500lbgorilla

In deep stack games, you should be more interested in protecting your stack over protecting your hand. It's a tricky buisness, but you have to make sure not to pay off when you hit a hand like TP while still extrating enough value from it so you're a winning player.

For low limits, it's usually true that you should become less aggressive on later streets (with deep stacks) and always hoping for a call/fold and never a raise. The fish are only playing their cards, when their hands get pretty, they raise. But until they get pretty, they love to just call.

Originally Posted by Fnord

Great post.

Originally Posted by Werddown

Another quesiton I have that sort of relates to this one is:

When betting preflop out of position with high cards, getting a call or two, then getting a low flop.... What is a good size for a continuation bet? Half the pot? Pot-sized?

I'm having trouble forcing people out of the pot that have bottom pair or a weak draw, and when I try to show more strength, it seems like someone has always hit 2pair or their set and just slowplay my continuation bets like they are drawing.

Originally Posted by r8ed

I always bet the pot when I miss and it's checked to me in position. If somebody bets before me, I fold. They beat me to it. I will usually check the pot when I'm OOP and miss unless I'm against one or two players and know they will most likely fold if they missed too. If that's the case it's the pot again. This seems to do the trick at 25NL. If you get reraised jut let it go.

I want to know where I stand on the flop whenever possible. It's easeir to put them on a hand when 3 cards are out rather than 4. I don't care if I take down a small pot because I take down many small pots with low risk.

This is all I do. Camp and take down small pots with low risk. I only need to hit a couple camped hands to make it all worthwhile.