Quote Originally Posted by nish81
This part particularly interested me, it runs contrary to what I've been doing so far. Particularly the first example you give, with A9s on a AQ2r board. Are you saying that we should basically bet enough to offer bad odds to hands we beat, but not so much that we fold out all the hands we beat? i.e. that making a psb has a lower ev than a 1/2 pot sized bet because most of the hands we beat would fold to that?
The point I was attempting to make is that you don't always have to bet big or check, especially in multi-way pots. It's OK to just keep making small stabs at a pot in these small stake games since you are may have the best hand now, and have a decent chance of having it at the end as well.