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Continuation Betting
By Pokerpromotions.eu
A continuation bet continues your preflop aggression with a bet on the flop, regardless of the context of the flop.
Most of the time if you raise with Ace King preflop you will miss the flop (around 70%).
With a continuation bet you are representing a big hand like Aces or Kings,
and there is a good chance your opponent missed the flop too and folds.
Example
You are sitting in mid position with Ace Queen of spades and you decide to raise.
Your opponent in late position calls your raise with 88.
The flop comes King, King, Jack with no spades. You missed the flop but it is likely your opponent missed too.
You decide to make a continuation bet and you opponent now has a decision to make.
He decides to fold the best hand, because a King or a Jack fit easily in the range of hands you would raise.
The idea behind the continuation bet is to let your opponent fold a better hand or to let your opponent not draw out on you.
It works best if you have position on your opponents.
However, some experienced players know what a continuation bet is and will often call or raise.
They might even do this if they don't have a hand theirself,
but they will try to take the pot away from you on the turn if a blank comes up.
There are many factors to consider when to use the continuation bet.
What type of player the opponent is, is he capable of bluffraising my continuation bet, how likely he is going to call and many more factors should be considered.
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