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 Originally Posted by Vinland
Love this thread.
Can somebody explain this line to me in noobie terms?
Robb wrote:
I hear you crying now. "I can't overbet the pot with JJ on a KTx flop *sniff*." Adjust your pansyass cbetting range. Tighten it up.
The bread and butter of a lot of low-stakes players is the continuation bet. They open the betting pre-flop with a raise, hoping to get most of the other players to fold and end up heads up against 1 or 2 pre-flop callers. Then the flop comes, the betting is checked to them and they make a continuation bet representing that they hit the flop and take down the pot when the other players fold.
The calling station may be a bad player in many respects, but the one thing you can say about him or her is that being a station is a +EV strategy against players who make too many continuation bets. Calling station calls preflop with T7 offsuit, flop is Q97, Hero continuation bets with his AK, and calling station calls. Maybe Hero tries again to buy the pot after the turn is a blank, calling station calls. River comes another blank and calling station takes down the pot with his 7's with a trash kicker.
So what you have to do is tighten up your continuation betting range against calling stations, so that it is more likely that when you are doing it you have enough equity in the pot to justify the bet.
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