When to slowplay and when not to.

There is always an important question that strikes you when you hit a great hand on the flop or turn; should I slow play?

It mostly depends on the situation but lets say in this case that Hero calls a 2.5x raise on the BB with going heads-up against villain on the BTN. This opponent is tight and usually goes in with at least one premium card (J-A).


Flop comes: , with 2 clubs. What would you do here and why? What would you do on later streets after your flop decision?


I really wanna hear everybodys opinions , if you have another situation then feel free to share

It depends the relative stacks and game type.
Late in a MTT with a smaller stack, I probably would go all-in, worst case you have 7 outs (1*7, 3*J and 3*K) to beat a flush or straight, but still not the straight-flush.
In a cash game, I probably would min-raise.
But realise, I'm not good at poker math, I track and see what others offer.

in that situation you still have to bet. you can check except you know your opponent love to bet weak hand a lot so you can take advantage from his action.

There's advantage to both styles and mainly depends on the type of player you are facing. You don't want to check too much in-turn losing value. Check raising seems seems fine, with all-in on the turn probable.

The set in this case is a well disguised hand and you do not need to slowplay it, because the cards on the flop are already potentially dangerous. I think that you need to raise at least 1/2 pot. If an opponent has a K with a strong kicker, then it will be called and in the following streets you can also increase the pot size.

Well if there's a flush draw or straight draw I would never give him free card after flop, so it's a bet 100%, you should slow down if there's actually flush or straight opportunitys. If the board is not connected then I would slow play my set, I'd try to bait him.

I like only slowplay monster hands (full, poker, straight flush) with hands hows set, two pair is good bet because they can be overcome on the turn or river and we should not give your opponent cards

Well after your seven on the flop you have three of a kind so in this case is simple: all-in.

That's a good point, but if you were able to extract quite some value even with a flush or straight draw out there by slow playing it could pay out in the long run.

It is estimated that a player hits a straight 1 in 254 hands and a flush 1 in 508 hands.

If you suspect your opponent to have a draw by observing tendencies, then it's good to charge them, but most of the time the tight villain in this case will just fold and you will lose value.

After all, it all depends on the villain and his tendencies.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poker_probability