C-betting when it commits you ($11 6-max)

What is everyone's strategy here? I thought about pushing pre, but normally, in position and with closer to 15BB than 10, I prefer to make a standard raise.

I guess it mainly comes down to flop texture. The board below is quite drawy, would most people check/fold? What if the flop was T33 or some other dry flop? Would you still c/f, or put your tournament on the line with a bluff?

Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em, 11 Tournament, 50/100 Blinds (5 handed)
UTG (t4240)
SB (t1515)
BB (t2685)
MP (t2135)
Hero (Button) (t1425)

Hero's M: 9.50

Preflop: Hero is Button with Kd, As
2 folds, Hero bets t300, SB calls t250, 1 fold

Flop: (t700) 3s, 7s, 6c (2 players)
SB checks, Hero ???

Either shoving or standard raising is OK in this spot. However, if you're standard raising, make it 250 to go, that way the pot is 600 on the flop and you can c-bet 300 or so. If you have to give it up, you lose 550 chips rather than 700 (since your c-bet on this flop would have to be 400 or so).

If the blinds are aggressive I definitely prefer standard raising in the hope that one of them will shove over.

Originally Posted by taipan168

Either shoving or standard raising is OK in this spot. However, if you're standard raising, make it 250 to go.

This is important, because a raise of 300 and 250 have the same fold equity in this spot. Betting less allows you to invest less in a c-bet.

If it is checked to me, I would c-bet almost every flop.

Good advice with the bet-sizing, cheers. I guess I figured on a draw-heavy flop like this one, I'd have to c-bet closer to 2/3pot which pretty much commits me. Keeping it small from the start and putting a bluff in closer to 1/2 pot, I can probably get away from it.