to cbet or not to cbet

[thizzSantaCruz]

Villain is 32/21/4 and has been relatively active. His bet sizing seems abnormal to me and makes me believe he isn't very good.

3 handed 50NL 100bb eff
He raises from the button to 1.75
I reraise with QQ to 7
He calls

flop K55
c-bet or not?

[|~|ypermegachi]

1.75 is not abnormal. that is 3.5x which is pot. unless you have some history with him, i think you should cbet here every time.

[sauce123]

i dont think it matters much to be honest

[thizzSantaCruz]

sorry, I should have been more clear. His betsizing is not abnormal in this hand but in his previous hands it has been strange.

[wufwugy]

So not a c-bet. QQ is too vulnerable to a raise. A raise that may come from a worse hand on that flop.

Take a check calling line, especially since villian is bad, you think. He may not know how to value a king. Check raising is possibly even better than betting. You have not FE against hands that beat you, and if you bet and get called you're in the same spot than if you check/call flop. Except a higher likelyhood of villian not valuing enough or bluffing.

At least this is how I play it in a raised pot. 3bet pot I dunno as much since I haven't been in this situation nearly as often. Maybe you're not deep enough in a 3bet pot, but really, how is betting better than check calling?

[WildBobAA]

You have to cbet this since you're OOP. If you had position checking behind is best but by checking the flop here you're basically waving the white flag.

[benny999]

id c-bet without good reads, but if he bluffs too much that's a good reason to check.

[wufwugy]

You have to cbet this since you're OOP. If you had position checking behind is best but by checking the flop here you're basically waving the white flag.

Which is great since we're calling his bluff.

[JeffreyGB]

You have to cbet this since you're OOP. If you had position checking behind is best but by checking the flop here you're basically waving the white flag.

Which is great since we're calling his bluff.

How many times? C/c turn too? River?

[wufwugy]

Depends.

If we bet flop then a worse hand like JJ may raise because everybody loves raising that here, and then we fold. Sometimes a hand like JJ just calls, then on the turn we're in the same spot no matter if we bet or c/c flop.

Air is more likely to bet than raise. Betting flop never folds a king or better. This isn't as important in 3bet pots, I think, though. We could get away with murder by making villian think we're slowplaying KK or AA because he may be thinking he'd slowplay it here.