Slow playing at the micros

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I started to notice when i slow play strong hands like a set or two pairs more often than not i'm being suck out on by straights or flushes. Should i just value bet instead of trying to trap by slow playing these hands?
 
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I started to notice when i slow play strong hands like a set or two pairs more often than not i'm being suck out on by straights or flushes. Should i just value bet instead of trying to trap by slow playing these hands?

Majority of the time, yes. I would generally never slowplay sets against fish and even regs most of the time. I do sometimes slowplay top set on dry boards though.

Anything full house and better should be put up for consideration for a slowplay but even then, fish won't fold Almost all their hands on the flop so don't against fish but against regs... Yes.


Another sitch is if you flopped a FH in a family pot and the board is dual tone and connected. This you wanna bet smallish to encourage flush and straight draws to come along. By small I still mean at least 70 pct. people like to chase draws in multiway pots anyway, and you don't wanna lose value vs trips, though trips will reraise if they decent
 
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My advice is never slow Play anything unless u ve the nuts of full house or a 4 of a Kind in a Multi way pot.. but it is better to be aggressive than slow playing ..
 
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it depends on players involved in the hand, if they are calling stations you better bet ahead if they are people who like to donkbet or cbet everything then let them play first
 
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You shouldn't slowplay hands like two pairs, sets, straights and baby flushes. Wrong card hits the board and your opponent beats you, then you realize what mistake it was.

Yesterday though, I was in a 3-way pot with AJs and flop the nut flush. I still have to c-bet because an opponent has position on me and it will be hard fir me to extract any value if I check the flop and bet the turn. Ok, so I bet 1/3 and he min raises. At which point 3-betting is probably not an option, so I call. The turn is an 8, blank. I check and he second barrels quite a large chunk of his stack. Now, I'm positive that he has a decent hand and since I'm OOP I should check-raise him. He 3-bets the rest of his stack and flips over a two pair (Q8)

In general though, you shouldn't be slowplaying all that much unless you flop Quads or the high end of a fullhouse.
 
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The reason you should value bet is not so that worse hands don't draw out. Its so that worse hands call and you make money most of the time.

People in the micros make two, kind of comical, mistakes. They bluff and try and push people off hands and get called by a single pair or a high card, then curse the dumb idiot for calling. Then they slowplay their strong hands and curse luck and fate that they either don't get paid off or the guy folds.

People call too much at the micros. So, you don't need to slow play. You won't always get called, but you will often enough for it to be the best option.
 
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It depends.
There are instances where slow playing is profitable.

It depends on many factors-villains personality, table image, table dynamics, people left, etc.

At best, its better to win small than lose big. :)
 
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Slowplay sucks anyways.. Today in2$mtt with13 bbs and AA at my hand i wnt all in and guy with 2,3 off syited called me . I lost bcus he hit the flush ^^ slowplaying anyways is not good thing , with strong hand u raise pre flop3bb or more , ot says that u have stron hand and they wont call you .. After seeing the
flop the game begins :) goodluck man:D
 
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If you want to play slow then play slow every hand, not just a strong hands. Opponents will see your strategy and they just fold, when they see that you have something good.
 
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i'd only go as far as to check a flopped set OOP, you generally want to bet for value at the micros as people will call you down with top pair and marginal draws, only circumstance i could think of majorly slow playing would be if you either flopped 4 of a kind or a the nut flush where you are just hoping opponents will catch up and hit some sort of hand.
 
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