Slow Playing in Limit – Post Flop at casinoextra.fr

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Slowplaying is one of those poker techniques that is a double edged sword. Sometimes you can extract a lot of extra action out of your opponents by taking your time and misrepresenting your hand. Other times, by not acting aggressively enough and claiming the pot early, you’ll give your opponents a chance to pull ahead of you and take down the pot.

 

So, how is a player supposed to know when to open the betting throttle, and when to take it easy?

 

One thing to take into consideration is the limits at which you are playing and the skill level of your opponents. At most low limit tables, your opponents are concerned with how nice their hand looks, and aren’t giving your holdings a second thought. In these situations, just bet and give them something to call. Especially if they are the passive type, and won’t be making any bets on their own. After all, why just give them free cards?

 

 

 

If you’re playing at a table with craftier opponents, things change, and your list of potential poker tools to use expands to include the Slow Play.

 

 

 

Slowplaying requires that you flop a fantastic hand. Not a pretty good hand, a fantastic one. Pretty good hands require protection, so you should bet them! visitez le site

 

 

 

Say you flop bottom set, with a flush draw on the board. Bet, or better yet, raise! A set is a wonderful thing to flop, but if with a draw on the board, there’s no need to coax extra bets out of a player, and even less of a reason to give free or cheap cards. If someone is on a draw, they ought to pay for the priveldge of seeing the Turn.

 

 

 

By slow playing, you are giving your opponents a chance to see another card. That card cannot be good enough to let them pull ahead of you in the hand. If it can, then the situation is not right for a slowplay.

 

 

 

Instead, you want that next card to be good enough to let them think they’ve pulled ahead of you in the hand.

 

 

 

For instance, suppose four players limp into a hand, and the flop comes J 7 2, rainbow. With your pocket pair of 7’s, you’ve got a fantastic hand.

 

 

 

There are no draws on the board, so you can afford to give away a free card. You check to the turn. So does everyone else. The turn reveals an Ace. That’s a card that would give an opponent enough rope to hang themselves with. Anyone holding an Ace would start to open up and do some betting. And all of those bets are chips you wouldn’t have won had you started out betting, and not given them a chance to latch onto the second (or third) best hands by landing a turn card.

 

 

 

That’s the essence of the slowplay, giving them false hope. But, if there’s already hope on the table, either in the form of a draw or when your opponent has already hit second best hand, there’s no need for playing things slow.

 

 

 

So the next time you find yourself sitting at one of your favorite poker rooms and find you’ve flopped a monstor, think about things before you begin betting. The situation might call for playing things a bit slower than usual.