Hand:
A6o (BTN), flop comes Js-9o-5s.
This flop looks pretty wet, a lot of hands connect with it. You already mention that it's not your fav board.
But you still decide to cbet it. From primo's videos I have learned that the main reason we don't want
to bet in these situations, is cause we don't want to get raised off our hands by a drawing hand.
What if we have a read on our opponent that he's likely not going to raise his draws here. Do we want to cbet it?
Because we have showdown value. So are we going to cbet it to make the draws pay? So basically if you feel you
will get called down pretty wide on a flop like this, so basically any straightdraw, flushdraw, pair... do you want to
check behind or cbet?
You hit on a good point there, the main reason we don't want to cbet here is b/c we have showdown value, position and we don't really want to negate that by getting check-raised.
I'm not sure on my specific reads at the time, but if I fully realized and pointed out that the board is wet and we often check behind, my reasoning is likely that villain is more passive and may also give me the ability to double barrel or find a good fold equity type bluff later on in the hand vs a great deal of his calling range.
I may also have seen villain doing something that exploited a check behind like leading the turn too often or I may just have had a decent read that villain was ultra transparent with his range against a c-bet here.
For better or worse, when the decision is close to me in real time and one option gives me a very clear picture of villain's range for future streets and the other saves some chips (pot control), I usually take the more aggressive approach. Not only does it help me make the best decision on future streets, but it also allows villain to make seemingly good, floats or aggressive bluffs in future hands, something I feel very comfortable with exploiting and playing against in position.