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Originally Posted by EvilGreebo
OP - When you're playing low limit live and you c-bet into a flop you missed, you are bluffing.
Bluffing low limit live is -EV. Betting into 4 other players when you missed the flop is suicide. Even with AA if you didn't hit a set, with 4 callers, check/call and check/fold are often better choices than bet/call or bet/fold.
As for your other question - personally I don't like OPEN limping, ever, but I will over-limp (that is, limp behind other limpers) plenty in low limit live games. The thing is you can't over-limp and then call down - you have to be able to fold the weak pairs and lose a little, over and over, in order to find the spot where you flop the big smashes and can pull the "i've got top pair! I'm all in" players along with you. Even so, doing so can be very high variance as a flopped 2 pair with low cards is very vulnerable.
This is a little off from what you're asking, but maybe you should work on your C-betting. For example, when I decided that C-betting was a weak area for me, I looked at a chapter on C-betting in a poker book (
Bluffs, by Jonathan Little.) I wrote down some bullet points to use as a guide and I put them on a clipboard near my computer for online play.
Here are those bullet points:
1.
Consider a C-bet:
Against 2 players, both will miss the flop 42% of the time, making a C-bet profitable.
C-bet dry boards.
C-bet high card boards
C-bet on all boards where you have a range advantage.
2.
Consider not making a C-bet:
C-bet less against good players.
Check if you think villain is likely to fold.
Consider checking with marginal made hands.
Check when the turn is unlikely to make your hand worse.
Of course, studying any topic is about more than bullet points, but that should give you an idea of where to start.