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    (Formerly Steve-O) Steve Ruddock's Avatar
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    Default A good time not to slowplay

    One of the very few interesting AA hands I've ever had. What do you think?

    20/40 Hold Em, An unknown MP player (he's been here for 3 hands) limps in from MP (WEAK, WEAK, WEAK!!!! but like I said he is unknown) and the incredibly loose guy on my right limps to.

    I look down at on the button and raise. both blinds fold and both limpers call.

    the flop is , the first guy takes about 2 seconds too long to check and the loose player checks quick. What to do??

    OK I know the loose player will call me down heads up if the other guy folds so slowplaying would probably give my hand away more than betting and pretty much guaranteed action, so I made up my mind before it got to me to bet.

    now the MP player calls real quick (I'm pretty sure he has a ten) and the loose player agonizes over it and folds his hand (he must have had a runner runner straight or flush)

    the turn is and once again the MP checks, but this time he check raises me. I just call.

    river is a dud and the MP player bets into me, I raise, he re-raises, and I re-raise again and again before he stops (idiot), he has ......... drumroll....... QT

    since I bet out on the flop he thought I had AK or AQ, I think if I check the flop I get less action on the end. Sometimes slowplaying a monster is not the best way to maximize value. Although I did slowplay the turn which really threw him off. I would have bet out if I was first to act on the flop to, because of the sheriff in the hand.

    A player in the game who I play with often said he had no Idea what i had, which is good because i can usually tell him exactly what he has and vice versa.
    Last edited by Steve Ruddock; 03-13-2005 at 07:42 AM.
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    This dope wasn't going anywhere preflop, on the flop, on the turn, or on the river. Nice hand. He was trying to slowplay you right when he saw the 2 T's on the board.
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    even if he doesn't have a Ten and folds the other guy would have called. The loose player just refused to let anyone win uncontested, he would have called me down heads up with Jack high.

    this was more the reason i bet the flop, once the other guy called and the way he did it, I buckled myself in and prepared to reel in a big fish.
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    OMFG!!! I have a great hand from last night.
    Quote Originally Posted by FaDi View Post
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    care sharing?
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    Quote Originally Posted by FaDi View Post
    GodFadiR (12:32:45 AM): but lets be honest
    GodFadiR (12:32:48 AM): who doesnt wanna fuck me
    WotaWotaWota (12:33:22 AM): I do
    WotaWotaWota (12:33:27 AM): in tehanus

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    you got in an extra small bet on the flop this time, but when he doesnt have a ten you dont get any action from someone who catches up/bluffs. he is going to give you action either way with the 4th nuts.
    it's better to be pissed off than pissed on
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    u coulda gotten more out of him steve-0 coulda been capped on turn AND RIVER if you played it right

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    Quote Originally Posted by negranu333
    u coulda gotten more out of him steve-0 coulda been capped on turn AND RIVER if you played it right
    ur looking at this from post-hand perspective

    if the river hadn't been a Q, he only would have gotten 1 bet out of the river if he'd somehow capped the turn

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