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 Originally Posted by ponyboy
1) The way I look at this is usually if you think you have the best of it on the flop/ turn then you want to bet enough to actually win the hand right then and there without opponent being able to see another card by giving him the wrong odds to call your bet. The only way this differs is if you know you have opponent drawing dead in which case you extract as much as possible.
This is a horrible misconception of what a bet should accomplish. If you have the best of it, you gain nothing from your opponent folding, and gain a lot when he calls without correct odds to do so.
Originally Posted by ponyboy
2) To me this would mean sizing your bet to go with the odds, just like before. For example, if you can put villain on two overcards then he has 6 outs to call for improvement - your bet needs to reflect this. If you know they have 25% chance to hit, then you need to give them worse than 3 to 1 to call.
This is part of it, but if you have a bluff or value bet, there is a theoretical amount that will maximize your expectation by manipulating your opponent's calling/folding ranges. This isn't particularly complicated to do if you have all of the time in the world for analysis, but at the table you're best off to decide between 2-3 "standard" bet sizes.
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