Quote Originally Posted by Surf_Thug
If you miss somtimes you need to give up (check out) the pot, this will give your continuation bets more credibility.
I agree to a point. I think deciding to give up sometimes as a random choice can be wrong because if you have 99 on an AKQ flop, sometimes your opponent has JJ.

I do not always continue however. I make this decision based on whether I think I'm being set up for a checkraise by a notorious slowplayer on a board that beats me, or my opponent is solid and/or aggressive. The second key to my choice whether to check behind on a flop has a lot to do with how many outs I have. The less outs I have, the more likely I am to continue on a board I missed against a solid player. Sometimes seeing a free card with outs is your best move against someone who may check raise you with nothing just to find out.

On the other side, as the person in hand with the continuing raiser, it becomes close to profitable to check raise a notorious continue clown with any outs at all just because you know he's doing it with nothing too often. What makes it positively profitable is the respect you recieve from that continue clown who now only continues against you when he actually has something.