Quote Originally Posted by rghy2 View Post
It sounds like you are making very large bets if you'll have less than 2 cbets when you start with a stack of 20-30 bbs. If your standard bet is large then I would treat your stack more like a short stack. If it's the standard 3-4x the bb if you're dominated you might lose half your stack, but you still will have a decent opportunity to lay the hand down and find another spot to shove and double back up. After the flop the best, most straight forward way to play is bet if no one else has and fold if someone else bets or raises. This is what you should do if you don't have any other information. But these are the situations you should really use the information you've gathered on your opponents. How likely are they to call any c-bet, chase hands down, raise, etc. You should be trying to pin them down on specific hands they would have had to enter the pot with. If you are up against a tricky player, it's better to lay the hand down and wait for a better spot against more marginal opponents who you have more information on.
Thanks. Keep in mind, the more micro the stakes get, the faster I am forced to play these hands in the best interest of not being more than 3 handed. In anything $5 and up, I would have more bets because I would have the ability to bet less to accomplish the same thing. Like if I play $.30 or $.60 tournaments, I find it's best to just treat them as AIOF and destroy the bubble. If I shove AA or AK, with 100 bbs early on, someone with A7o will call anyways. Then I just have to hold.

Similarly, in $1-$3 tournaments, there is a tendency for losing players to be too passive and "clingy when they hit" (depending on the table of course) and there is massive inflated value in never giving them a chance to fold their weak/marginal holdings. Again, this comes with knowing your opponent. There is one guy I keep running into that's a reg in micros, with an roi of over 200% in thousands of games, with him on my left or in a pot I am, the whole game would have to change altogether.