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C-Bet Strategy

SB C-Bet Strategy on 9♠ 4♥ 2♦ vs BTN — 3-Bet Pot

9 ♠
4 ♥
2 ♦
SB vs BTN · 3-Bet Pot
On 9♠ 4♥ 2♦, the small blind, as the 3-bettor, c-bets 98% of its range against the button: 61% at the small 5.6bb size and 37% at 14.4bb. Nothing in the range checks more often than it bets. Of the 38 hands it brings to this flop, 17 are genuinely mixed decisions.

How this board compares with nine other textures, and why frequency and size move separately: the flop c-bet study.

98%
C-bet
2%
Check
5.6bb
Main size
Bet 5.6bb Larger bet Check Partial fill = mixed frequency

BeyondGTO solver database · 6-max cash · 100bb · SB vs BTN · 3-Bet Pot · updated Jul 28, 2026 · method

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C-betting 9♠ 4♥ 2♦ as SB

Dry, high-card boards like this favour the aggressor: the preflop raising range contains more of the top pairs and overpairs, and there are few draws for the caller to continue with. That range and nut advantage is why a small c-bet works at such a high frequency: it denies equity cheaply and gets called by worse.

The hands worth drilling on this board are the mixed ones: AA, KK, QQ, JJ and 55 and 12 more. Each is a close decision where the solver bets some of the time and checks the rest, and getting the frequency roughly right is worth more than memorising any single cell.

Read the grid by cell colour: teal is the small c-bet (5.6bb), amber a larger bet, and the dark fill is a check-back. A split cell is a mixed frequency.

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