Quote Originally Posted by Chopper
man, i dont know about this one. this sounds like stuff meant for levels above where i play. i think at low/micro stakes you still need to be a cbetting monkey. cbetting being..."when you miss." too many people keep thinking betting the flop when you connect is a cbet, too. obv, its not. when playing lower, i bet flops like crazy...cbetting weak/tights and value betting call stations. the frequency of the cbet into the w/t's makes my v/b's look like cbets to the passives. no one knows which is which. when they start c/r'ing me, i go to v/bing only for a bit until that starts to fold off the field, and switch back. but, thats me.

using "cbet" as when you miss ONLY, i think with 1:1 or less, you need to chill on cbetting, and make it 75/25 value betting because you are committing yourself (again this is based on micro limits). in the 2:1/4:1 range, you should be a cbetting monkey because you have room to bet scare cards on turn, etc. but, again, after 4:1, you need to chill on cbetting again because c/c, c/c, c/r is too easy to pull on you because of the implieds you have left on the flop. if you are showing interest, and carry 150 bb+, i'm inclined to let you spew away with my bigger flops, as long as i have a history on you 2 barreling. maybe thats sillyness, but i think the deeper you are, the more pointless cbetting is. who cares if you missed a flop? why bloat a pot with air when your villain liked his hand enough to c/c?

you shouldn't base the % of times you cbet on the % of times you value bet. you should base it on opponenet post flop tendancies and flop texture. c-bets allow us to steal pots and inflate pot size when we have a hand. c-betting deep is pretty standard if the conditions are right, and they are more often then they aren't.