Quote Originally Posted by Pants_101
And of course top pair can be a huge hand or a hopeless hand depending on the board and opp's probably hands. If I was able to have more confidence about a villains range I could bet harder. I have no problem when I flop really big because I'm just betting out it's these top pair hands that fox me.
At ten NL a decent rule of thumb is:

assume they're chasing to beat TP until they raise you, at which point usually assume TP is beat and just check your pot odds for a call.