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Wow, this post has attracted almost as much hostility and name calling as my theory of why it can be advantageous to stay in the red zone.

I didn't say Fischman's play was wrong. I just brought it up because it was unusual.

Does everyone think this is the worst post ever because it is obvious that betting out with a boat is a standard play?

I know everyone is against slow playing, but you slow play a boat for two reasons. It is almost impossible for anyone to draw out on you. It is almost impossible for anyone to have connected to the board. This is particularly true with a 772,r board that doesn't allow many draws.

Now I assume the reason Fischman was that it was adangerous board that it looked like no one had connected with. He hoped Cassidy would play back with nothing. He also may have thought a check might create the suspicion he had trips.

The result was that Cassidy folded.

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The reason for the hostility is because you left out every detail. You didn't say if it was rainbow or suited; you didn't give stack sizes; you didn't give blind sized; and you didn't give bet sizes. Had fischman led a huge % of flops before this?

If you asked me "should you bet out when you flop a boat?" I' respond "it depends."

Also, never leading with a flopped boat against players you're going to see again (or on TV), is obviously horrible becuause then every time you lead, your opponent will know you don't have a boat.

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I saw the hand on TV and I don't have all the information about stack sizes, blind sizes, the exact flop, how they played previous hands etc. It's not like I can get a hand history like online.

It was 3-handed, so the blinds were fairly big. I think I rermember the flop, and I gave it later on.

Are you serious about if you don't bet with a flopped boat, your opponent will know you don't have a boat? You don't flop a boat that often. This only matters if your opponent flops trips top kicker or something, an they are probably not going to fold for fear of a boat anyway. Later in the hand, you could still have a boat even if you didn't flop one.

I was not saying the play was bad, just that it was unusual, and I think there has been some interesting discussion of this by intelligent posters such as sirio11 and sossman.

Perhaps I should have explained in the initial post why betting out with a boat was unusual. The TV commentators were acting very suprised and like it was an unusual play and maybe a bad play. This was a limped pot and there were no draws. It's not like leading into a raiser who may have an over pair.

I think some people didn't understand that it is pretty standard to slowplay a boat and why that is. Therefore they reacted with "worst post ever", like I posted that someone flopped a set and bet out.

Perhaps I should have posted more information, but my critics should also give a more intelligent and detailed criticism rather than "worst post ever" or "this post sucks".