Quote Originally Posted by Elexshun
Don't always bet your draws, that is bad advice.
wrong

do u c y ?


the reason is this
Whenever you make a raise or bet, make sure you are bluffing or semi-bluffing a significant percentage of the time.

For example, say a decent player opens in middle position in a 9 handed game and you call on the button. Stacks are pretty deep and the flop is K78 with two spades. Villain bets 3/4 of the pot as a continuation bet and you raise to 3x his bet.

If your range is exactly KK/88/77/87 then that sucks.

If your range is sets/87/T9/65/spades then thats a little better.

If your range is sets/draws and occasionally AK, second/third pair, or 99, then thats a whole lot better.

Basically the idea is that if he can bet the flop with AK and fold to any raise vs you then thats obviously terrible because you are never getting action. You want to be raising just enough hands that it puts him in tough spots when he has AK or TT/JJ/QQ.
Nice example for OP on betting draws.

100nl 6max, 100bbs stacks.

UTG loose fish limps, you limp in CO with JTs, button raises to $4. utg calls so you call.

Flop is A89 rainbow. Pot is ~12
UTG checks, you bet $8 button minraises to $16 (like they do lots at these stakes OR calls) and UTG folds.

Turn is a 7. $44
You check, button bets $20, you c/r all in with $80 behind, so its just slightly bigger than pot size raise, or else you bet 30 and opp calls.

River is any card, $104
You bet $40 all in and opp is getting better than 3:1 with tp or a set or top two etc and just cant fold.

Basically, betting your draws allows you to build a pot so that when we want to get the money in the middle we can do so easily because the pot is big enough for our bets not to be overbets. If we check call, the pot doesnt get very big OR big enoughf or us to be making pot size bets that = all in.
Also, betting makes it seem you have a made hand, if you opp has a lukewarm hand your aggression is folding him lots.
Also, when we flop sets/two pairs and want to get the money in leading doesnt seem any different from normal. If you only ever lead oop to 3bet all in on the flop then you are easy to play against.