Me and another FTR poster were having a pretty interesting talk about the concept of betting into the preflop raiser in NLHE. My default play has always been to check to the raiser, and reevaluate after he makes his play. I raise a lot of c-bets in this situation or smooth call behind if I think he will fire again on a turn. I very rarely every bet into an opponenet. I am not sure why I have never done this, I think mostly because I just read somewhere that checking to the raiser is pretty std. NLT&P also suggests check-raising with air/made hands/draws in this situation.

I have alwyas assumed that solid tags will raise these bets into them when they have the initiative with a wide range of holdings becasue that is what I like to do a lot. Once again I seem to be giving my opponenets too much credit. At 50nl I doubt they will do this a lot.

So now the real question is when do you guys lead into an opponenet? When are you checking to the raiser and reevaluating after they make a play. What plays do you use to balance these situations?

I know this is really broad, hopefully it will start a good discussion. I think this is one part of my game that definantly needs to be developed.