Don’t Slow Wager Your Way Out Of Big Pots!
Posted in Poker on 12/01/2010 05:21 pm by Jessie
Slow play is really a term used in poker – specially Texas Holdem – for trying to lure your competitors into generating a big wager so that you can trap them and take down a big pot.
It can be usually used having a really very good pre-flop hands such as pocket Aces on Kings. As an alternative to wagering major, the gradual player will sit back and limp in (call or check) as if he doesn’t have a palm worth wagering, hoping that an opponent will have caught a lower pair or a straight draw and will come in with an enormous bet.
It is a classic poker manouever and one which has won a lot of money for poker players down by means of the ages, except it has lost it’s effectiveness. The uncomplicated reason for this is that everybody is now slow betting their huge hands so it truly is pretty much expected.
So how do you use this circumstance to your advantage?
In case you catch a big hands, you have to arrive out wagering. Instead of trying to tempt your opponents into generating a move so that you can are available in over the top, produce the wager yourself. Now most amateur gamblers baulk in the thought of this in case the rest of the table folds and they "waste" their massive hands, but in reality you are going to normally generally have some betting action from somebody.
By wagering your large palm in place of sluggish betting it, you might be performing a double bluff since most people today would gradual play it. Your competitors will generally assume you happen to be bluffing and you will acquire several betting action and ultimately win a lot more money.
The other reason you should wager is that should you do not bet, that you are allowing your competitors a no cost look at the cards and each time a card is turned more than they might be converting a losing hand to a winning one.
There’s only one situation where it will generally pay to slow bet on your palm – when you flop an absolute monster that virtually can’t be beaten. For example say you happen to be dealt Ace, 4 of clubs and the flop is Queen, 10, 9 of clubs. You’ve just flopped the nut flush and you are pretty much unbeatable. OK anyone could have a pair of Queens, 10s or Nines and catch a fourth on the turn or river, or they may be holding the King of clubs and catch the Jack for a straight flush, but the chances of you not succeeding are now remote.
This is the time to slow wager on your hand. You will discover all sorts of hands that any individual else could possibly be holding to make them believe they are in a very good position here; 2 other clubs, a straight draw, triples or even just a Queen for the top pair, whatever they have got the chances are someone will feel it is worth wagering. If the flop or river produces a King, Queen Jack, Ten or 9 you may receive a big raise or even an all-in from somebody.
Now you let them construct the pot up by just calling the bets and take down the pot with your nut flush.