Are there good reasons to slow-roll your hand?

Honestly, I'm not a fan of slow rolling, too often I get suckouts because of it, and when I have the nuts, I rarely get paid off. There are certain situations where it makes sense, for example, when I know my opponent bluffs very often and tries to steal the pot, then it is definitely an option. But generally, I don't like it that much.

ms_attack said:

Honestly, I'm not a fan of slow rolling, too often I get suckouts because of it, and when I have the nuts, I rarely get paid off. There are certain situations where it makes sense, for example, when I know my opponent bluffs very often and tries to steal the pot, then it is definitely an option. But generally, I don't like it that much.

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A slowroll is pretending, you are considering a fold, when you have the nuts AND are closing the action. So per definition its impossible to slowroll and not get paid, since your opponent has already moved all-in. If thats not the case, then you are not closing the action, and then pretending to have a decision is not slowrolling but just deception, which is a completely normal and legitimate part of the game.

fundiver199 said:

A slowroll is pretending, you are considering a fold, when you have the nuts AND are closing the action. So per definition its impossible to slowroll and not get paid, since your opponent has already moved all-in. If thats not the case, then you are not closing the action, and then pretending to have a decision is not slowrolling but just deception, which is a completely normal and legitimate part of the game.

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ok thanks for your explanation, so it is actually pure Hollywood theater, well, I like that even less.

Paraphrasing Harvey Specter: "Poker is not a game of cards, but of people."
I completely agree with him, so there are many types of people, players, who will meet on a good day to play, or on a bad day.
And depending on that specific day, they will act in a certain way. I, personally, tend not to be that kind of person and do everything possible to take all their chips and minimize the time I spend with them. Or it could be the opposite, I get annoyed and they take everything I have, but either way, I don't want to be with them for very long.

I feel that slow rolling around Amy money bubble or money pay jump is perfectly normal and very common in the game of poker.

I would slow roll in those moments if it was to my gain or benifit.

RhinoRyan89 said:

I feel that slow rolling around Amy money bubble or money pay jump is perfectly normal and very common in the game of poker.

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This is called stalling and has nothing to do with slowrolling. I guess, it could occationally be both at the same time, if you run down the clock before calling an all-in preflop from a player, who have you covered, to increase your chance of cashing, even if your AA get cracked. But even then most players will understand, that you are trying to get in-the-money rather than let them think, you might fold, and therefore they will not percieve it as a slowroll. If they will be left with a short stack after losing, they might even appreciate, that you also increase their chance of cashing by running down the clock.

I think the only reason it makes sense to slow roll is someone who is a) easily tiltable and b) been disrespectful to the table in some way. Otherwise I believe slow rolling someone is bad karma and the poker gods will always have a way to repay bad karma at the table.

Plain and simple slowrolling is when you have the stone cold nuts and you sit and wait to call someone's all-in at the last possible second,only acceptable to do to is the loud mouth idiot or drunken fool

CRStals said:

Otherwise I believe slow rolling someone is bad karma and the poker gods will always have a way to repay bad karma at the table.

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It can certainly end up resulting in bad karma and looking pretty silly, if you do it before the river with a hand, that might still get sucked out on. Some might argue, that this is not a slowroll, since Habb "only" had the second nuts. But for sure he was not 3-betting KK with intention to fold them to a 4-bet jam, when he was less than 25BB deep.

So for me this was still a slowroll. And also an angle, since he pretended, he just intended to call, when the action got to him the first time. And I think, everyone other than Habb were happy to see this very ungentleman like behavour punished by the card gods. "Ship it to mamma", as the commentators said

I never show my hands.