Also, your c-bet strategy (if you always give up after one bullet), that could be a leak - a good player should crush you. If firing one bullet is going to be your standard, then you need to balance your range by checking turn in situations like this hand, before bluff-catching or value betting river.
Mis-interpreted my OP here. Firing only one bullet is far from my standard line. It just so happened that I got in a few spots here where I thought that firing a second bullet here was not the correct play against certain players. I knew it had given me a weak table image at the time.
I am not sure I completely agree with the "reasonably polarised range" bit either - also not sure I completely understand it! My range is far from top pair or better or nothing - as you said I will be C betting this type of board 100% of the time.
I C bet all my middle pairs, suited connector type hands that can improve, Ax type hands etc etc
I like C betting smaller when I open button / cut off / hi jack with all of my range on these type of boards. Not sure how to phrase the arguement for it being good though tbh.
Fair enough - you"re not going to be far wrong just firing one bullet anyway in a $10 tournament.
In respect of your range - do you think your opponent feels this? You described yourself as tight, so including all Ax, suited connectors etc isn"t really that tight - key here not being what you would actually do, but what your opponent thinks you"ll do - do you have any HUD stats from the game?
As a result of your apparent tightness, Villain should be peeling wide and 3-betting very narrow. If you"re playing a tight range (~20%, 55+, A7+, KT+, QT+, JT), there"s not much in the way of hands with medium-strength showdown value and no draws. You pretty much have a J or better - or nothing.
This will mean Villain will probably call you pretty light on one street at least. KK is over 70% against a reasonable calling range (set, 56, 78, 77-TT and J9+). After Villain calls the flop, what range do you give him?
If Villain has nothing, little difference, but a check-raise bluff costs him more if you bet bigger. If he has something, then you"ll get more value from your hand with a bigger bet. You also give his hands that are behind less implied odds. I don"t think that his calling range changes drastically if you bet half pot or near full pot - so might as well go for the max.
Over the long run you"d need to balance this by doing the same with your AK"s that miss etc - the bigger bets makes it far harder for the draws, mid pairs and smaller Jacks to carry on in the knowledge they"ll face escalating bets. Plus it"s quite fun bludgeoning people off hands