10 thoughts on “Poker Strategy: Slowplaying”

1. Dude was doomed from the beginning. Villain is calling preflop no matter what and he's calling your raise of his weak ass donk bet on the flop if played differently because overpairs will be the majority of your range so most likely his 9 will be good for his donkey end of the straight. Then on the turn it's all she wrote. Destined to lose this one.

2. This channel is becoming my fav listening to all these fish ringing in with their battles v other fish.also hilarious are some of the comments “a well he was gonna hit the straight anyway bro”🤣🤣🤣.

3. Hindsight is 20-20 but next time the hero will re-raise on the flop

4. I dont mind villains play postflop. He pot controlled the entire way gave himself a great price on every street. Because if the turn was a blank for villain he would've likely bet the same amount and if he got raised on the turn by Hero I wonder what he wouldve done. He got the caller to abide by his price on the flop and the shove on the river made no sense by hero because nothing changed. If hero had J9 or 96s villain wouldve heard from him on the flop or at least the turn so. And playing 64s from the sb preflop not a good play but because button had called, if villain is a good hand reader he could play these types of spots and had justification for being priced in.

5. Id be surprised if this caller was a winning player

6. i'm raising flop hoping he has a smaller set or two pair…if not the flop, surely the turn, i mean come on!

7. Bart I’m surprised you aired this, didn’t know you had a new Amateur Hour bit coming out 😂

8. I am at 6:30, just paused to say this might be the most painful call yet.

9. I’m not a fan of this analysis of the hand, now that we know what villain has.

   With such a small raise by hero, SB has pot odds to call with almost any playable hand. BB isn’t likely to try to squeeze 4 other players with so much money in the pot. They’d have to shove to even try. So, if you’re villain with a $3k stack it’s nothing to throw $18 down in a guess that the two limpers aren’t planning on limp/shoving.

   So, 64s IMHO is a reasonable hand to play when you’re only putting $18 into a $46 pot, and more to come. All this especially so because he’s so deep stacked. He’s not a bad player. He’s just willing to play a little looser to try to use his stack to clean house.

   Now that your extremely scary dynamic flop comes, he has a well-disguised hand and any 9 or 5 gives him his straight, and he knows that you and BTN’s ranges probably don’t block either of those combos, thanks to your PF raise. Moreover, his hand is nicely disguised, and his flop bet allows him to represent hands like KJs, J9s (mentioned), AQ, etc. Remember, villain doesn’t know what you have, and your relatively weak PF raise disguised your TT well. So, villain probably put you on something like top pair (near the bottom of your range) or overcards, and figured he might be able to bet now to represent over-cards later. Basically, you fooled him into making the correct play against you on the flop.

   When his glory hole 5 came out, the rest was just auto pilot. He knew you had something or you wouldn’t be calling, and you just kept confirming that with your continued calls. The only thing that could beat him was J9s or (lol) 9-6.

   Villain wasn’t a bad player, at least not based on this hand. He might have a looser range than you would expect, but he had 1000BB. If he was calling out your hole cards successfully, then he probably saw a weakness in your game and chose to play an otherwise marginal hand to exploit you.

   You might think you have an aggressive table image, but if you’re calling down two streets with that flop, you aren’t playing the hand aggressively. You’re slow playing a hand you shouldn’t be. The ugly news is that villain likely would have called even if you raised his flop bet. Your only hope was to close your eyes and shove.

10. Do not check a set. You wanna build that pot asap! And get donk hand like that to fold.

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