Slow play ... Free cards to your opponent ?

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Hi guys, what you think about slow play ? A way to make your oppenent bluff you and make more value , or Just a opportunity to them find their cards ...
 
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Henriquekbnz said:
Hi guys, what you think about slow play ? A way to make your oppenent bluff you and make more value , or Just a opportunity to them find their cards ...



I tend to slow play at Stud. Because even though I start with 2 pairs
At the end my opponents make the straight or a set or a better 2 pairs
Like that I lose less money
 
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I only slow play when I flop a monster, top set or better. Otherwise it just goes south. I get less and less confident I'm ahead.
 
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Slow playing is a good way to help ensure you lose your hand, or win a very small pot. I do it in very specific circumstances but am ready to fold quickly when things go south, which they usually do.
 
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I usually slow play when I have a really good hand and with no straight/flush draw in the board.
 
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It is better not to play slow play. But against some opponents - a good decision.
 
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Pocket Aces preflop I am not slowplaying, learned my lessons well by getting stacked by six eight offsuits too many times.
Slowplaying is negative ev, value betting is positive

If the pocket eights of the world want to see a flop against my Aces, they are going to pay a premium to me to offset my losses for the times when they hit the set.
 
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Certainly both answers are valid, but slow play is dangerous because your opponents can play a better game with a card like you with 10.10. and the flop comes with 10.9.7 and the opponent with 8.A and the flop shows 10.9.7 4.6, so his slow play would fail if he bet all the time. I believe that there are different actions that we must take at different times so that they don't do it in slow play, in this case it would be an aggressive bet on the flop to see if your opponent already has a straight or if he wants to wait for the free card to win it, so I see a lot of this happening at the tables, but in poker we don't always win because it can happen, but if you play many tournaments right, there will be more chances for you to FT in many
 

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Hi.
I think this is a bad idea, which is likely to lead to losses in the long run.
Good luck.
 
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All I can say is you can't protect your hand when playing a bad player. They don't know they should fold. So it all depends on If your playing a good player or a bad player if slow play is good or bad!
 
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Henriquekbnz said:
Hi guys, what you think about slow play ? A way to make your oppenent bluff you and make more value , or Just a opportunity to them find their cards ...


I love slow play! I use it to get my opponents upset, so that they quick play, and put themselves out of the game.

I got this idea from Dan Harrington, and it works well for me.

Here's some of how I work it: When I start a tournament, I will take as much time as I can, and if someone starts hassling me about it, I zero in on that person, and even tell them what I'm going to do. That makes them even madder, and even more impatient, to the point where, sometimes, they'll go all-in against me, just to try and get rid of me.

Then, I use both quick, and slow play, to confuse other players, so that they don't know what type of hand I have. I will slow play enough to get a slow reputation, so that when I have a poor hand, and I'm up against it, I will quickly go all-in, and often times, everyone will fold.

There are lots of benefits to the way anyone plays, as long as they know how to use it.
 
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If such a game gives you good results, then I do not see anything wrong with that, but in general I believe that the skills, discipline and patience of the player are much more important.
 
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If you flop a monster and you know your opponent have nothing the only way to extract value is to give him a chance to hit something on turn or river to set the hook and induce a bluff or what he would think a value bet. Also depends on the kind of player you're facing and how wide you think his range is
 
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Free cards for sure. You beter almost never slowplay.
 
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P86 said:
If you flop a monster and you know your opponent have nothing the only way to extract value is to give him a chance to hit something on turn or river to set the hook and induce a bluff or what he would think a value bet. Also depends on the kind of player you're facing and how wide you think his range is



Yes I agree
You have to give them a chance to catch up
 
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Feels to me like 9/10 times you’re opponent gets a hit or at least a promising draw from the flop so I tend to get it in early:D
 
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I do not like giving a villain a chance to beat me from a lucky draw on the turn or river. If I have a hit on the flop, I become a scissorhands.
 
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I rarely use slow play, because it is very dangerous if there are a lot of outs for the opponent on the table.
 
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Henriquekbnz said:
Hi guys, what you think about slow play ? A way to make your oppenent bluff you and make more value , or Just a opportunity to them find their cards ...


Usually the slow game is at the beginning. it is a super useful tool to develop a game.
 
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No

No, I don't like to slow play anything but the nuts. It's just a good way to lose your chips.
 
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Slow play is the poker thing that depends 100% on what kind of opponent you are facing.

My advice is not like it or not, BUT use it if the expected value is good enough to take a chance.

Is not a standard kind of play, you need to know when, how and why.
 
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I normally like to stay away from slow play unless I’ve flopped the nuts. In the past personally lost far too many hands due to slow playing.
 
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Can be situational. Maybe sometimes you want them to get their card.
 
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Henriquekbnz said:
Hi guys, what you think about slow play ? A way to make your oppenent bluff you and make more value , or Just a opportunity to them find their cards ...

For the most part no.
 
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slow play by betting small but never checking
 
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