Hello, I am re reading harrington 1 e 2, and I hadn't played for about 5 years. Many tines he says that good players vary the bet sizes to keep others guessing. i.e.: with the continuation probe bets, etc

I was considering the way I used to play and was good at the time; I used to do just the opposite: every time doing the exact same play. Almost always making bets of half the pot; almost always making c bets.

by the time, or the player would keep folding the majority of the time (rare today), or he would come back and I would fold and keep repeating the same thing until I had something.

Is this reasonable? Doing the same thing can have the same effect as varying it all the time (at leas with the bet sizes I think yes; with c bet frequency I think it depends if the opponents call a lot the first flop bet, as it seem to me is more frequent today than it used to be 5 yrs ago)

I appreciate any comments and thoughts.

good subject......

i don't see any reason not to change things up a bit......

you could argue that you don't play with people long enough for them to notice that you do X with strong hands, Y with weak hands.....

but i think it's a risk. and i think it's decent discipline anyway.

but if someone is going to call your 7BB pre-flop bet with aces - non super deep stacks - i wouldn't worry about people knowing you have aces.

and you can certainly vary between 2 and 3 bb for small pre-flop bet and 3.5 and 5 bb for your pre-flop bet i.e. vary a bit within the small and large bet ranges.

i should add you never want someone to know exactly what you have and/or what you are doing. it's like playing with your cards faceup

i should add that i think you want to randomize actions some (80-20 on non-obvious moves) even more than betting size. i think people will catch on to "action patterns" much more quickly than "betting size patterns"... not sure if harrington talks about that. probably

You can do exactly the same thing when you have the same board texture (regardless of your cards).

C-bet example:
Dry flops: always half pot
Wet boards: always 2/3 pot

But you should do this for both value and bluff. So villain will never know.