Best Free Poker Games Slow Playing Ways To Build That Chip Stack Sky High

It's a rarer occurrence in poker, it might occur when you play poker online free games or equally in big money games, when you've got, for example, J-9 and the flop shows J-J-9.

Your action is to check, your opponent follows with a bet and you call. Then the Turn comes and it's a 6, your action is to check again, and again your opponent bets. You call again.

River comes a 2. You check for the last time, your opponent bets a big amount which could be even an all-in, then you call. At last you show your monster J-9 versus their say, 9-7.

Typically with good made hands (such as AK in a flop of A,10,3) we will bet aggressive in the hope that the opposition will think it's a bluff and play back. Or we hope they'll place us on a draw and call us, or they've got a quality showdown hand that's not good enough for our hand and then call us. Or that they will be not willing to call with their draw (say, K-Q) and fold.

Yet with powerful made hands, in particular at the Flop, such as in the J,9 example, you are able to slow play. By this I mean you play passive in the hope that the opposing player bets strong and in doing so ends up giving us most of their chip stack.

Note that with a J-9 in the J-J-9 Flop, our checks may mean, that we may not have anything, or we may have just a draw (say, Q-10) so that they will bet on the hope that they will drive out our draw. They can't. Our hand is like an erect statue already that is nearly impossible to demolish. The 9-7 our opponent has is decent enough to take to showdown.

Now in the above example, what we'd really like the opponent to have is Q,10. Our check might mean we've got nothing and they might check and go along with us or choose to semi bluff with the open end Straight draw. We just call.

Why wouldn't we do the same with, say, A-J? Because with A-J, we have only Trips, and we do not want to give our opponent free cards to complete a Straight that can kill off our Trips. So we bet big, or raise big, and hope that the opponent folds, or at least put your opponent in the awkward situation of calling without sufficient pot odds.

But with J-9, we can just play it slowly. Because if your opponent hits his Straight, then he will bet big, so you can raise him. And it escalates to all-ins and calls and in a jiffy all or most of his chips are yours!

If your opponent didn't hit his Straight, however, your slow play might mean to him that you're the one on a draw, and you are playing passively because you are waiting for the right cards to fall. Nope! The right cards have already fallen! He will bluff, and you can take away all you can. Or he may just be in the proper mood to bluff with any hand (say, K-9 or eve A-K) and you can take his chips.

Therefore with near impossible to beat big hands you should slow play as you want opponents hands to improve into near matched hands. If they hit their Straight, for example. If you raise him he may be scared away from completing his Straight, and you will get less chips than you would by slow-playing.

Or with 9-7, he may hit an additional Nine, thus giving him a smaller Full House. Another reason is that if your opponent is in such a mood to bluff that he is willing to bluff all the way, even with nothing, then you can strip off his chips, so give him that chance to bluff.

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