Quote Originally Posted by clvacva
can you post some hands where you plan your hand and use ABCD theorem?
or 3bet with K2o
ok, well totally weird playing the role of mentor, but i'll bite.

you 3b with K2o when dranger sits to your right and tries to steal your blinds 'cause he runs like 90% ATS

as for a good exercise to get across what i'm talking about, i had this hand earlier: (doesn't involve ABCD theorem, but i linked a few examples of that in OP and really you can do ABCD for ANY spot and ANY hand, and i'm sure it wouldn't hurt. PF is especially straightforward and helpful for first-timers to the theorem):

PokerStars Pot-Limit Hold'em, $0.25 BB (5 handed) - Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

Button ($60.80)
SB ($25)
BB ($15)
UTG ($24)
Hero (MP) ($25)

Preflop: Hero is MP with ,
UTG calls $0.25, Hero bets $1, Button calls $1, 3 folds

Flop: ($2.60) , , (2 players)
[color=#CC3333]Hero's turn to act...

should you cbet this flop against the listed opponents to follow and why. what should your plan for the rest of your hand be (prolly just flop and turn actions, bet sizing, etc is sufficient, but i guess you can get into the river if you'd like).

1) villain is a 7/5 complete and utter nit. he's only getting to the flop with a slim range, he's never bluffing, etc and so forth.

2) a) villain is a 30/8 fit or fold fish, who usually only continues when he has something

b) villain is a calling station. will call on the flop with any Ax, any GSSD, BPNK, etc

c) villain is somewhere in between the previous two mentioned. his fold to cbet is in the 50% neighborhood 'cause even though he doesn't fold any pairs to a cbet, he also never rebluffs or float or anything like that

3) villain is a halfway thinking reg. he's heard of things like floats and raising cbets as a bluff but is only likely to do it with hands that are going to improve on a lot of turns (like draws). he'll continue with split pair+.

Ok, so all that talking about the opponents, but that was really just to give you an idea of the ranges you're working against. focus much more on your plan. i think one of the most important things to consider when you're making flop decisions (whether it's deciding how to extract value or whether or not you should bluff etc) is to think about "what turn cards may come" (yeah that's right shakespeare reference). what improves your equity, what scares your villain's range, what sucks out your villains range against yours, so on and so on and so on.

don't base your answer on what renton said in his guide for small stakes or anything like that. don't simply state something like "well you said that villain folds 50% to cbets and it only needs to work 40% to be profitable" because that's not planning your hand and planning your range.

honestly, if you can just put good thought into how you should play this hand on this board (and maybe put some thought into how you'd play your whole range here), then you're well on your way to actually knowing what the F a cbet is and what it accomplishes and how and when you should use it