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Old 10-29-2004, 07:16 PM
KKsuited KKsuited is offline
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Default Re: Thoughts on check-raising/slowplaying Vs. rarely doing it?

Gergery - I think you see what I'm saying.

Doyle says never slow play for 2 reasons.
1) If you're constantly betting at pots, you will win a lot of pots without a showdown. You can build your stack in order to be able to gamble later. Players will know you are aggressive and wait for a big hand to try to get you with. While they're waiting, you're winning pots.

2) Betting a lot of pots insures you will get action when you pick up big hands.

Hiding your hand is part of it, but not the main idea. Of course you don't want your opponent to know what you have, but that's not the most important reason not to check-raise and slowplay.

When you CR & SP, other players are now affraid of you. They don't want to bet at pots because they are affraid they are being slowplayed. They will often checkdown good hands. You make players tight, which is what you don't want.
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