Micro Stakes - Post flop.

Lets a I make a raise pe flop with A/K A/Q/ AJ and nothing hits the flop, should I make a C-Bet or just check it over and fold to any aggresion?

Tournament or cash game? Any reads on the opponents? More information needed, please!

It's 2nl. I have some notes on players. But just in general mainly

Depends on your oponent and table texture. If your opponent folds to cbets a lot, fire away. If he is a calling station, don't fire unless you have some equity. He will c/c you to the river with ace high and be proud for being so smart!

If you have a multiway pot it is generaly not a good idea to cbet without some equity or in position if it is checked to you because someone probably hit something.

In 2NL it is quite profitable to cbet a lot if the villains saw you value betting and taking a big pot to the river. Expect a lot of flop cbet folds if that's your image at the table and abuse it.

I believe the other issues are less relevant in comparison to POSITION. Second is stack size of the opponents...

Just play ABC poker and don't bluff at microstakes.

ZODECI said:

Just play ABC poker and don't bluff at microstakes.

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100% agree. Im right now building my BR in 888 LHE 0.02$, 0.04$. Its imposible to bluff, tables are full of calling stations.

If you know you are winning the hand hit hard, you will be paid. If you are losing, just fold. Never try risky moves.

In general, cbet. Most good players have a cbet percentage of 60%, and some cbet 90%, so MOST of the time you should cbet. Of course, you shouldn't just flip a weighted coin to decide when to cbet, pick the best spots to do it.

First. If you play starting hands like this remember that AQo and AJo are not that good starting hands from early position. I advise raising with them at least from middle position. If someone raised before me i would probabely call only if i know he is a LAG player. If a nit raises in front of you better fold them because they probabely are dominated.
If you raise than raise hard if you have limpers (4BBS+1 for every limper basic play).
Second. Depends who your opponent is and the structure of the flop. I would not cbet if a verry nit player called my cbet because he is ahead of me probabely. If he is a LAG player that calls preflop to see if he gets lucky and he usualy fold after i would cbet because 60% of the time i would take it down. For every player you have a solution. Sometime you cbet meet resistance and you have to let it down if you miss the turn. If he's a passive calling station just check untill the river.

Generally cbet. The loose players can call you with worse, the tight players can fold better, and most people will just give up if they miss because they just wanted to see the flop. Even if you get called you still have decent equity with overcards most of the time and if you're playing IP you'll often get to see both the turn and river for no more money.

So in summary, cbet, cbet, cbet especially at micros.

Generally speaking, the fewer the number of players who go to the flop and the better your position vis-a-vis these players, the greater your propensity should be to c-bet. I think that the flop texture is also very important. Given the range of hands that you have shown down to this point, is it likely that you connected with this particular flop? You should be less inclined to c-bet in situations where it is less credible.

And how should I proceed if I make a C-bet and get called and turn again don´t help me ?
Firing again makes it expensive, but if I check the other will raise me out of the pot I think.

MIGO14 said:

And how should I proceed if I make a C-bet and get called and turn again don´t help me ?
Firing again makes it expensive, but if I check the other will raise me out of the pot I think.

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This was something I was struggling with. The thing here is to pick your spots. If your villain is a calling station that never folds only cbet for value. If the villain on the other hand is folds often to cbets, cbet him all day long.

Yesterday I didn't pick up quickly that a villain was NEVER folding. He would take any ace or king high or any pair to showdown. I gave him a lot of money by cbetting. To be honest I adjusted a tad too late. The adjustment here is to tighten your range when the villain is in a hand and only value bet him.

And you want position on these guys at all times. You need to know what they are doing.

Cbetting a lot is good in micros because villains tend to play fit-or-fold but there are a lot of passive players that will check/call 3 streets with pretty much anything. If you are double barrelling them as a bluff, you'll be giving them money.

RVladimiro said:

This was something I was struggling with. The thing here is to pick your spots. If your villain is a calling station that never folds only cbet for value. If the villain on the other hand is folds often to cbets, cbet him all day long.

Yesterday I didn't pick up quickly that a villain was NEVER folding. He would take any ace or king high or any pair to showdown. I gave him a lot of money by cbetting. To be honest I adjusted a tad too late. The adjustment here is to tighten your range when the villain is in a hand and only value bet him.

And you want position on these guys at all times. You need to know what they are doing.

Cbetting a lot is good in micros because villains tend to play fit-or-fold but there are a lot of passive players that will check/call 3 streets with pretty much anything. If you are double barrelling them as a bluff, you'll be giving them money.

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Against the type of villain described you should still be betting your good Ax hands because they are better than his average holding and he's calling with worse (so you're value betting A high).

WVHillbilly said:

Against the type of villain described you should still be betting your good Ax hands because they are better than his average holding and he's calling with worse (so you're value betting A high).

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That's a very good point, never occured to me, thanks.