Conflicting strategies in Harrington on Cash Games, Vol. 1?

[Stacks]

Carroters, I'm assuming that (Bet 20%/80%) is an indication of how frequently we should be looking to bet versus check behind in this spot, rather than having anything to do with betsize.

[DoubleJ]

In the first hand, I raised w/ Kings and the flop comes AT4 (rainbow)

Read pp253 again

First off the flop is AT4

Secondly, his point about the A isn't that you should be "terrified"; it's just a pain in the arse coz if Villain has an A, he's ahead, and if he doesn't he thinks you have it, and either way it's hard to make $$$ with your KK, esp. as you're OOP.

Carroters, I'm assuming that (Bet 20%/80%) is an indication of how frequently we should be looking to bet versus check behind in this spot, rather than having anything to do with betsize.

Stacks is correct. % = frequency, not bet size.

[Stacks]

Read pp253 again

First off the flop is AT4

Secondly, his point about the A isn't that you should be "terrified"; it's just a pain in the arse coz if Villain has an A, he's ahead, and if he doesn't he thinks you have it, and either way it's hard to make $$$ with your KK, esp. as you're OOP.

OOP on that flop, I feel we should certainly be cbetting with KK. It's probably better than the alternative of check/calling, check/deciding.

[Carroters]

Ahh that makes much more sense although I can't say I'm a fan of assigning arbitrary frequencies to spots like that. If it's good to bet in that TT spot, and I think it is, then it's good 100% of the time not 80%. I guess you might want to vary your play like this very rarely vs someone you play all the time. Most often though, online and live, such a degree of balacne is totally unnecessary and costs you EV; you'll be making a mistake 20% of the time by checking 20% of the time IMO.

[jyms]

OOP on that flop, I feel we should certainly be cbetting with KK. It's probably better than the alternative of check/calling, check/deciding.

Yea, having someone who's behind that won't put money in the pot without improving makes this an easy bet. The only way I don't bet is if I think villan is stupid enough to bluff at it, but then I would have to give him more bluffs than Ax's