Here's a fun hand from a $5,000 no-limit hold'em event from last summer's World Series of Poker, one that illustrates the importance of proper bet sizing when betting for value.
The blinds were 200/400 with a 50 ante, and began with a loose-aggressive player on my right raising to 800 from the hijack seat. The raiser had about 15,000 to start the hand and I had around 50,000 when I three-bet to 1,900 from the cutoff with .
I discuss below how in lower-stakes events with more passive players I might consider just calling in this spot with this hand, but in this $5K event with mostly strong players I'm either folding or raising.