Quote Originally Posted by wonderland
I will almost always bet when checked to and often they call leaving me stumped on the turn
this seems to be the root of your whole problem. you shouldn't be cbetting 100% or anywhere very close to that. there are two types of opponents that you want to be careful cbetting against at 10NL: calling stations who never fold so the play never works and players who are able to exploit you (either TAgg regs who are capable of floating someone who cbets monkey or a LAggtard who goes all hulk on you if you cbet them like twice in a row and start c/r'ing constantly). so i think that you answered your own question when you said "i know it's in a vacuum but..." because the whole problem is that i think you're thinking too much in a vacuum.

ANYWAYS, in hand 1, i almost always cbet, and usually take the free card if the turn is checked to me (kinda like 50% of the reason we bet the flop in the first place so we could see TWO cards for the price of one). the turn brings a scare card then you can bet it if ranges allow for it (it's not always best two 2-barrel an ace against an A-rag fish for obv. reasons, but against most opponents a blank K or A is a good time to take down the pot without having to get fortunate on the river).

in hand 2, the answer is simply no unless i'm missing something. if the opponent is calling down all sorts of garbage like BP and A-rags and stuff that you can scare off with a turn bet then you shouldn't've made the cbet in the first place. just bet against this type of opponent when you actually have a hand and they will never catch onto your game and start folding their A-rags and BP's when you have AJ in this case 'cause they're stations and that's how we win money off stations. if you're cbetting against a station, they call, the turn comes up completely blank and you fire a second barrel then you're dedicating a lot of money to trying to bluff a station and a certain brunson quote comes to mind. a better line against a station is checking behind on the flop and betting just about any turn card because they're too caught up in what color their cards are to realize you're not repping anything when you do that (sometimes the delayed cbet play doesn't work either so you again but you don't adjust by simply firiing more and more barrels at someone who isn't folding)