Mastering The Fundamentals: Continuation Betting

Knowing when to continuation bet and for how much is a crucial skill in becoming a winning poker player! Learn exactly what you need in this poker training video created by 2 time WPT Champion Jonathan Little!

Most poker players will often tell you that they know exactly when to continuation bet and for how much, but Jonathan Little is here to teach you that most people really do not! Most people are on either side of the spectrum, either they continuation bet far too often or not nearly enough.

Here is a list of some of the quick tips that Jonathan teaches in this video about continuation betting:

- If your opponent will fold far too often, you should continuation bet a LOT.
- If your opponent will rarely raise, you should continuation bet a LOT.
- A powerful strategy in most games is to bet frequently and small because if your opponent folds to often you will immediately profit.
- You should always categorize your hands into 4 hand types: Premium Made Hands, Draws, Marginal Made Hands & Junk.
- If range advantage is small: bet less often
- If range advantage is large: bet more often
- As you bet more frequently you should generally bet smaller (under 33% pot)
- As you bet less frequently you should generally bet larger (50-100% pot)
- You will usually bet small on boards where the current nuts is likely to be the nuts by the river.
- When stacks are deep, bet larger. Equally when stacks are shallow, bet smaller!

Jonathan's new book: 100 Essential Tips To Master No-Limit Hold'em is now available! You can get it here:

0:00 - Continuation Betting
0:24 - Should You Continuation Bet Every Time?
1:12 - Basic Poker Math
4:28 - Game Theory Optimal - Continuation Betting
5:28 - The 4 Hand Types You MUST Learn!
7:07 - Range Advantage
12:03 - How Much Should You Bet?
17:00 - Continuation Betting Flow Chart
18:46 - Continuation Betting Examples - With Range Advantage
29:34 - When You Do NOT Have The Range Advantage
30:16 - Continuation Betting Examples - No Range Advantage
34:05 - Common Mistakes

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[PokerCoaching]

How often do YOU think you Continuation Bet?
A) Not Enough
B) Too Much
C) Just Right 😎

[markmorgan]

Thank you Mr Little for all your FREE CONTENT .Who does this .
Have a safe and healthy holiday season .
Again many thanx for all the hard work you do putting out your
content .Much respect. Peace.

[brianpotter]

I got that book for an early Christmas present, and I love it! It is VERY easy to follow and each "chapter" is short so you don't have to stop in the middle of the chapter very often.

[TheDonkanator]

Love your videos bro .. Most of these theories I already knew naturally just from playing cash for over 10 years and tournaments got the last year .

You given me more terms to apply to these in game situations that happen over and over again .

Plus for me these are like refresher courses for cash and on the tournament side I’ve been able to make deeper runs more often since I’ve been implementing some of your knowledge.

Appreciate the videos keep ‘em comin. One day soon when I’m famous I’ll connect

[codyskiby]

Love the content! Thank you for doing all you do for the community and aspiring players!
Just went to Amazon and bought your book, kindle version. Least I could do for all your great content, I am very excited to dive into it!

[banana]

I often find I get stuck in spots where someone floats my c-bet and, if I'm weak, I have to decide if I'm going to 2-barrel on the turn. I'm thinking I should size down my c-bet so that my turn bet is a little smaller.

[michaelgrubb]

When analyzing stack depth, what do you do when there is a discrepancy? As in your are deep stacked, but your oppenent is shallow realitive to everyone else? Should you be considering it from your stack size, theirs or a combo? My inclunation is you should keep the bet small to try to get them to commit chips without shoving.

[garyspear]

Thanks! Excellent program, as usual. Lots to unpack and explore. I’m buying the book; you definitely earned it!

[MomTullin]

I've been using this strategy since I started following you, I would have liked some hand examples for this video. But if you can help simplify this spot:

Consider hero has AT, BB calls and the flop comes K94r
BB checks and we cbet say 2/3 pot (considering this is decent for our range thus a med-large size) and BB calls.
Turn is a brick, say off suit 2. BB checks, do we continue blasting or give up? seeing as though there are very few logical draws available it's likely they have at least a king or 9 often in this spot unless opponent likes to float in this spot. I imagine this can go both ways depending on the opponent, but if we do continue blasting we go for a larger size on the turn? If he calls a pot size bet surely we give up on most rivers that aren't an ace.


I sense a leak in this part of the vessel, so I approach the Captain to help get it patched.

[MyPokerCoaching]

These are really some of my favorite videos that you make! Thank you :)

[libu]

Great video. Thank you! One question... in the C- betting flow chart, QhQc5s appears under three different categories: IP Strong, OOP Moderate, and OOP Weak. I understand how it can be both the first two, but it's not clear how it can simultaneously be the latter two. Maybe a typo? Thank you.

[matthewcastaneda]

Thank you Good sir .. ima get your book too .. yoir explanations can be overwhelming to a noob but i got you bro .. we speak the same language .. outsiders arre like what tbe heck is he talkimg abouut .. nutt asvantage ... range advamtage under the gun .. suitex connevtec broadway.. lmao gutshots amd the list goea on .. your hard work is appeciated ..

[yaronpini]

Thanks for the video!
can you share some guidelines how the solver picks what hand to bet and what to check?
BTN VS BB on J66 - KTo check but K7 bet etc

[robertbeuck]

Do you play online still, Jonathan, and do you make any money? ACR, BetOnline, Ignition all seem to know what cards I just won 2000 playing 1/3 at Binions HorseShoe in Indiana with little almost never play live

[JeffKotz]

I like this explanation of range advantage.

[hAuzMOVIEmaking]

Is there a link where to download the continuation betting flow chart? Is it at the Tools section? 🙏

[sammearle]

You have 15% premium hands then you need roughly 30% draws right? There’s a slide towards the end where hero has 17% premium hands but Jonathan says you can have max 25% draws in this spot… why wouldn’t we want more draw in our range then for the 1:2 ratio?

[NefariousMinds]

Range advantage is used when facing good players correct?
Seems that way, if players are playing their hands because they like them rather than following gto pre flop strategy.

[marksimpson]

I think I cbet too little but recently ive started c betting a lot more eithee because i have a draw ip or because i should have the range advantage and this is working at microstakes!

[thenightwolfhowl]

Can someone give me an example of a flop that connects well with my opponent's range (which makes me want to c-bet bigger)
And at the same time doesn't give my opponent the nut advantage (which would make me c-bet smaller)

I feel like I don't really grasp the meaning of the "range connectivity" slide. In my mind it contradicts the "nut advantage" slide.