Flush draws and c-bet sizing
Greetings, everyone. I kind of struggle to understand how presence of a flush draw on the flop affects c-bet sizing. From my experience with solvers it definitely affects it in comparison with the same rainbow boards, but sometimes it encourages to size down, and sometimes to size up, the only systematic thing I noticed is that you always check more.
Are there definite factors that affect the influence of the draw on the sizing?
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Greetings, everyone. I kind of struggle to understand how presence of a flush draw on the flop affects c-bet sizing. From my experience with solvers it definitely affects it in comparison with the same rainbow boards, but sometimes it encourages to size down, and sometimes to size up, the only systematic thing I noticed is that you always check more.Are there definite factors t
The presence of a flush draw (or any draw) is part of the board being dynamic or static (how likely is the nuts to change on turn or river.) Dynamic vs static is then also only one factor in sizing.
Having a significant nut advantage and villain being capped leads us towards bigger sizes, we have big hands that want to get money in, villain has fewer or none of those premium hands.
Villains higher board connectivity leads us towards bigger sizes, villain defends small bets easily we put on maximum pressure with big bets and polarized ranges
More dynamic boards lead us towards smaller sizes, our best hands are the best hand by the river less often.
Flush draws make the board dynamic which calls for smaller sizes, but often give villain connectivity which leads to bigger sizes. You need to look at the available flush draw with the other factors of the board together
