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Message: [QUOTE="zachvac, post: 960256, member: 26306"] Yeah it's really hard to talk about in generalities, but in general: You need to assess hand strength on flop. How many streets of value can you get out of the hand? Sets/2-pair type hands the answer's usually 3, so you should look to bet flop, turn, and river. Top pair/overpair type hands can be 2 or 3, depending on board texture as well as opponent (if a calling station will call with A8 on a A52 board then we want to fire our AK on 3 streets). But also we need to be considering our opponent's hand strength. For example a check-raise is an extremely strong move, so especially if it goes check-call flop and check-raise turn you can consider folding hands like top pair and such. In the AA example I believe villain bet flop, turn, and river and you raised river. In this case you definitely would call river because you basically haven't shown any strength, but think about what our opponent would have that would call our river raise. Nothing that we beat basically. So whenever you make a bet or raise, especially late in the hand where bets will be bigger, you need to think about the purpose of the bet. If it's a value bet you need to consider how many worse hands call you compared with how many better hands. If it's a bluff you need to consider what hands will fold and which will look you up. Now I'm pretty sure at 2nl you're not running any crazy bluffs, so mainly the value bet section is applicable. Think about what you want to get value from and how much of villain's calling range will be hands you beat and how much will be hands that beat you. If the latter is bigger then you definitely don't want to be value betting. Again sorry for being extremely general here, but basically it depends. Feel free to post any hands you have questions about in this regard and I'd be more than happy to explain the thought process I'm talking about and others could comment as well. [/QUOTE]

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