January 30, 2006
The Continuation Bet in Limit Poker
As I’ve shared before I’m currently working hard on improving my limit poker game and so far I’ve been having quite a bit of success with it.
One concept I haven’t quite got sorted yet though is the use of a continuation bet when playing limit, for those of you who don’t know a continuation bet is one made when you have raised preflop with a strong hand but then missed the flop completely. In no-limit poker you can often make a bet large enough that it will scare everyone else away and you’ll take the already large enough pot. In limit, however, your continuation bet is only one SB which is hardly a scary proposition to anyone who even slightly hit the board and often your opponents will have odds to correctly call this bet anyway.
In an effort to improve my knowledge of this topic I went googling (strange, that word isn’t in the Google spell checker!) and came across the following excellent post on “Sounds of a Suckout” by ScurvyDog:
Continuation Bets With Overcards in Limit Hold’em
I’d highly recommend anyone interested in learning more about continuation bets in limit poker check this out, it’s a great read.
