Range bet

Also: range betting, range c-bet

Betting your entire range — every hand you got to this spot with — for a small size, typically a quarter to a third of the pot. Solvers favour it on flops where the bettor has a large range advantage, because the opponent must fold so much that even the weakest hands profit.

Example. On A-K-4 rainbow the pre-flop raiser range-bets 30% of the pot with everything.

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