53o strikes again

[Willem]

I was spewing some chips at the no-fold'em tables when I got this beauty. You can imagine the comments everyone had afterwards.......

Poker Stars
Limit Holdem Ring game
Limit: $0.02/$0.04
7 players
Converter

Pre-flop: (7 players) Willem is Button with
UTG calls, UTG+1 calls, MP1 folds, CO calls, Willem calls, SB calls, BB checks.

I wanted the blinds to come along so I decided to slowplay.

Flop: (6SB, 6 players)
SB checks, BB checks, UTG bets, UTG+1 calls, CO raises, Willem 3-bets, 2 folds, UTG caps, UTG+1 folds, CO calls, Willem calls.

Raise for value, obviously the strait will come.

Turn: (9.5BB, 3 players)
UTG bets, CO calls, Willem raises, UTG 3-bets, CO calls, Willem caps, UTG calls, CO calls.

There it is, they never know what hit them.

River: (21.5BB, 3 players)
UTG bets, CO calls, Willem raises, UTG calls, CO calls.

Bad card, their single brain cell probably realizes something is going on and they slow down. I am just sooooo unlucky in this hand.

Results:
Final pot: 27.5BB
UTG mucks Ah 4d
CO mucks 6c Ac

[rayrns]

Willem wrote:

[Willem]

You are correct in the sense that I should have played this hand fast before the flop.

And as for slowplaying in the general sense, it's just a phase I am going through. After playing no-fold'em for a few months ($0.25/$0.50 and lower), my game has become very simple and strait-forward. No slowplaying, no (semi)bluffing, just tight ABC poker, bet/raise when you have something, fold otherwise. The only tricks you can use there are the free card trick and inducing some bluffs.

I am trying to incorporate more deception into my game but you are correct in the sense that I must be careful not to turn slowplaying into some form of FPS. Besides, of all the hands I posted today, only 2 feature some potential slowplaying scenario.

[Willem]

Actually, now that we are talking about slowplaying. This article is great.

[loyo1]