BukNaked36
Straight
I enjoy watching a few of the poker vlogs, Andrew Neeme and Brad Owen probably being my favorites. In their cash games, I’ve noticed a lot of flop bets of ½ pot or smaller. It also seems like I see flop bets of roughly ½ pot in tourney poker.
This seems to be contrary to my initial reading/training – I think primarily in Theory of Poker. The rule there being - overcharge your opponent for draws and every call they make is a negative expected value mistake. Based on this, I'm typically betting 3/4 pot or more on the flop.
Generally, what are you typically looking to bet on the flop? Why? I feel like I'm missing something with these smaller flop bets.
If a hand example helps, say –
1 / 2 game – hero has $200 and new to the table
Folds to Hero in CO. Hero has and raises to $10
Button calls
BB calls
Pot $31
Flop –
BB checks,
Hero bets $25 is standard for me
What's your bet size and why?
This seems to be contrary to my initial reading/training – I think primarily in Theory of Poker. The rule there being - overcharge your opponent for draws and every call they make is a negative expected value mistake. Based on this, I'm typically betting 3/4 pot or more on the flop.
Generally, what are you typically looking to bet on the flop? Why? I feel like I'm missing something with these smaller flop bets.
If a hand example helps, say –
1 / 2 game – hero has $200 and new to the table
Folds to Hero in CO. Hero has and raises to $10
Button calls
BB calls
Pot $31
Flop –
BB checks,
Hero bets $25 is standard for me
What's your bet size and why?