The continuation bet · and everything around it

Poker strategy, drawn to scale.

Most strategy content is a wall of words about feel. We draw the decision instead: one situation per page, one clean schematic, the reasoning written like an engineer’s notes. Named after the c-bet, the most common decision in poker, and the most misplayed.

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FIG. 1 ยท THE CONTINUATION BET PREFLOP YOU RAISED FLOP COMES THEY CHECK BET ≈ 1/3 POT NOTES: 1. YOU TOLD A STORY PREFLOP. THE C-BET IS ITS SECOND SENTENCE. 2. SIZE TO THE BOARD, NOT TO YOUR CARDS. 3. A PLAN FOR THE TURN IS PART OF THE BET. SEE DRAWING 001
C-BETTING.COMSHEET 1 OF 1SCALE: EVERY POT

The drawing index

One decision per drawing

Strategy pages are published as numbered drawings: one situation, one schematic, the reasoning underneath. The index grows as each drawing is finished and checked; we publish nothing half-drafted.

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Where to apply the drawings

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