u guys play bigger stakes and bigger games than me, but I find in NL25 (6 max especially) that betting to find "where I'm at" does a few good things -
1 - I pick up plenty of those orphan pots
2 - I give off the image that i'm not a rock. In my games I tend to get Lots of action when i've got a big hand because I bet at a lot of pots and play a lot of cards - When I say that I don't mean I come out betting 1/2 a pot to find out - in a 25NL game I've found that a 75c or $1 bet is usually effective at finding where your at -

Now, in the long term maybe it is a losing play - Do we all play the long term though? I have won some big pots (for $25NL) by giving action. I'll bleed away $2-3 in info bets when i can double through someone when I hit a real hand and he thinks i'm "betting for info" still....

basically what I mean is I don't think Poker is as Black & White as it's made out to be sometimes...We play against people- not cards -

just random - Im sure the play at $100NL is probably much different and it isn't as easy to trick those players....

was the info post about NL or Limit? Or does taht matter?