i think that one of my leaks is using the continuation bet too much and having to fold after I get raised on the flop. I don't lose my whole stack obviously but it chips away at my bankroll.

When is it best to make a continuation bet? I'll throw out some ideas and hopefully some of you can critique them and add some more.

i find that it is good to bet out when you've hit your hand or when you are heads up in position. When it is a multiway pot, I will generally check fold if I missed the flop completely. Depending on board texture, I might fire out a cont. bet on the flop out of position heads up but if I get called I will put on the brakes.

Well ur right, the big pots increase the BR but its the small ones that maintain it.

I tend to make my continuation bet the same whether I hit the flop hard or not at all and its really working. It also helps to be properly bankrolled.

I read in a book 90% of the time. Depending on what limit you play, this is probably too high the lower you get since everyone puts you on AK everytime you raise preflop.

Continuation is good because you want to maintain the control of the hand.

If players are regularly coming over-the-top then maybe play fewer hands (or use check-raise) but still make those bets regularly. When you come up with a monster and they try pushing you off your hand you can take their whole stack.

I had a similar problem and the best adjustment I made was lowering my bet size relative to the pot. I used to fire the whole pot regularly but anywhere from 25%-75% often gets the same result without risking as much.

I play mostly short-handed these days, and I continue-bet 95% of the time. For me not to do so would involve a super-scary flop and multiway pre-flop callers.

I usually fire out about 75% pot size regardless. I would say I continuation bet about 70 to 80 percent of the time. It just seems like lately people keep trying to push me off and I end up folding. Maybe it's not a leak but just that my opponents are hitting the flop hard.
I usually find cont. bets a good way to slowly build your stack but lately it's not working. Variance?

it depends so much on the table. TAGish/TPive tables I'll continuation bet every flop, but if it's full of calling stations/LAG's and you have absolutely nothing with little chance of improving, what's the point in doing it regularly?