This was at one of my local games...

Blinds 500/1000 (16,100 starting stacks)

I'm SB, I have about 18,000 in chips
UTG has about 14,000 in chips

I'm in the small blind with AA. UTG calls, five people fold to me. Now, not wanting to scare the remaining out of the pot, I raise 2,500 all-day (2g more for me). Modest for the blind size, atleast where we play anyway. BB Folds, UTG calls. Flop comes KAK. Nice huh?



So I checked it down to the river. Turn was a Blank, and the river was a Q. He seemed suspicious that I checked the flop, and checked with me the whole way. Figure I should bet about 5,000 on the river, before he could check. Didn't really want him to fold, so i felt it was a good value bet. Maybe he hit something. Well, he paired his Q, calls, and shows QT, and I got paid! He must have put me on JJ, TT, or such.

Could I have done anything different? I didn't want to bet too early, as I wanted him to catch something, and call me. I think if any hand calls for slowplaying, this was it.

Thats the problem with catching a great flop, sometimes its so great it puts the other players off.

Like yesterday when I completed in the SB with A7 and the flop came 777, checked it all the way down to the river, finally bet 1/4 the pot on the river to try and at least get some action and everyone folded.