Here are the questions, answers, and explanations from our c-betting quiz.
Question #1
🔲 Check
✅ Bet $2
On dry boards like this one, you can c-bet small with most, if not all your range.
You can do this profitably because a large portion of your opponent's range is made up of very low equity hands, meaning that the he will have a very hard time continuing often enough to deny the effectiveness of such a small bet.
Question #2
✅ Check
🔲 Bet $2
Your hand is neither strong enough to bet for value nor does it deny a lot of equity. These 2 reasons mean that we have no incentive to put money in the pot.
Question #3
🔲 Check
✅ Bet $2
Betting small here is the correct decision because you will get called by many worse hands (A3s, 43s, flush draws, A-high, etc.) and it also benefits from protection when your opponent folds a hand with two over cards (KTo, Q8o, JTo, etc.).
Question #4
🔲 A♦ A♣
✅ J♦ J♣
Both hands beat the same portion of your opponent's range, but JJ should be c-bet more frequently because it benefits more from protection. AA is a lot less vulnerable and can act as a very strong bluff-catcher on many run outs. You should still bet AA when you have a backdoor flush draw, but checking back the combos without a backdoor flush draw is a solver-approved play.
Read this article to learn more about the hand selection concepts at play in this hand.
Question #5
🔲 Check
✅ Bet $2
Paired flops are some of the best spots to fire a continuation bet with your whole range because the Big Blind will have a very hard time calling and raising enough against such a small bet.
Question #6
✅ Check
🔲 Bet $2
This board is so wet that you need to become stricter with your bluffs. K♣ 3♣ doesn’t have any straight draws, flush draws, or even back door flush draws, which means we should just give up. Luckily you are in position, so you can check and take a free card.
Question #7
✅ Check
🔲 Bet $2
On such a wet flop you will not deny enough equity or get enough value to justify even a small bet with your hand. You need to polarize your betting range (by only betting with very strong hands and semi-bluffs) on this type of board.
Question #8
🔲 Check
✅ Bet $2
You should be betting on the flop with this top pair, decent kicker in order to get some value from weaker Ax hands, Qx, some pocket pairs, and draws. You should look to check on most turns as this hand is perfect for bluff-catching on the river.
It's worth noting that using a very big c-bet size (roughly $7 into this $5.50 pot) is arguably an even better option than the smaller c-bet size. Many top pros use big sizes on high-high-low flops like this to maximize value with their strong range.
Question #9
✅ Bet $2
🔲 Bet $4
This is a reasonable hand to check back since it doesn’t benefit much from protection and it’s tough to get value from worse hands given the bad kicker.
That said, betting small at a near-100% frequency is a solver-approved strategy in this spot. So, betting is reasonable as well so long as you are using a small size with a wide range.
Question #10
✅ Check
🔲 Bet $2
Even though you have top pair, this type of board (extremely connected and monotone) heavily favors the player in the big blind. You need a significantly stronger hand than this in order to value bet even for a small size.
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