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[QUOTE="primrose, post: 7129997, member: 1036998"]
I've once asked a pretty famous poker pro (whom I just happened to know from another game) what the single most important thing about poker is, and he said, "remember that there are only three reasons to bet: (1) get a better hand to fold, (2) get a worse hand to call, (3) denying equity (much less important than the other two)".

In live poker you see people making bets that don't fit any of these all the time. Just recently I had a hand where I (preflop aggressor) bet the Flop and the Turn and my opponent called me twice with a Queen high OESD. Then when they got a Q on the River (top pair), they jammed for their tournament life. It didn't make any sense because now they had a strong hand and didn't need to bluff. The same move would have made much more sense if the Queen [I]hadn't[/I] come. As is it was almost an exact reverse where all the weaker hands would fold and all the stronger hands would call.

Most live players (and some online players) actually just don't think logically about their bets at all; they're using a vibe-based heuristic which sometimes sort of works but other times yields nonsense plays, especailly on the River.
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