The flop comes down and completely misses our hand. Continuation BetĪ Continuation bet is used only when we took the lead in the betting before the flop by making a raise. This is small enough to tempt an opponent who is losing to you to carry on in the hand, and also is big enough to protect your hand against opponents who are on draws that could overtake your handīetting ½ the size of the pot is only giving your opponent Pot Odds of 3 to 1 so if an opponent on a drawing hand calls then he would be making a mistake as he wouldn’t have the odds to chase most drawing hands. Now this is very subjective depending on the opponent and other factors, but as a general guide a Value bet should be about ½ the size of the pot. The problem we face here is, we want to get as much money into the pot as we can, but we also don’t want to bet too much that our opponent gets scared off and folds. So we are trying to find the maximum bet that we can make that our opponent will call. Get money into the pot without scaring our opponents offĪ Value bet is where we believe that we have the best hand, and we want to get increase the size of the pot that we are about to win.
