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Old 06-28-2005, 02:46 PM
WarLordAG WarLordAG is offline
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Default Slow Roll?

I have heard the term a few times recently but have no exact idea of what it is.
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Old 06-28-2005, 02:49 PM
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Default Re: Slow Roll?

When someone with a monster hand shows there cards very slowly as to give the impression to his opponent that his opponent won.
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Old 06-28-2005, 03:05 PM
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Default Re: Slow Roll?

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When someone with a monster hand shows there cards very slowly as to give the impression to his opponent that his opponent won.

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Can only happen in live poker.
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Old 06-28-2005, 03:37 PM
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Default Re: Slow Roll?

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When someone with a monster hand shows there cards very slowly as to give the impression to his opponent that his opponent won.

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Can only happen in live poker.

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not true, it is possible in internet poker. For example say you're playing no limit, and you have a royal flush (or otherwise the nuts), heads up, on the river. Your opponent goes all-in, and it's your action to call or fold -- raising is not an option, and there are no other players in the hand (if there are other players, you can delay your action to intice action from the remaining players, assuming you think that'll work). You purposefully delay the max amount of time before calling, knowing you have the nuts. Likewise if your opp. goes all-in preflop and you stew calling with AA.

this is also a slow roll, and it's bad sportsmanship to do this on purpose.
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Old 06-28-2005, 03:42 PM
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Default Re: Slow Roll?

Some sites, such as true poker, allow you to muck the winning hand if you choose. Here you can wait several seconds before turning over the winner.
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Old 06-28-2005, 04:09 PM
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Default Re: Slow Roll?

it's just showing a winner slow or doing something cheesy like...all i have is 2 pair, aces and aces...something stupid like that.
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Old 06-28-2005, 04:50 PM
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Default Re: Slow Roll?

i've actually seen people at live casinos tap the table after seeing the opponents hand, then look at the dealer and say "ship it" and show their hand.

another hand player A called on the river after thinking for a while. when he called player B said "good call" and player A showed his hand. player B then says "good call FOR ME!!!!" and shows the nuts and drags the pot in himself.

these people should be murdered.
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Old 06-28-2005, 05:06 PM
Nigel Nigel is offline
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Default Re: Slow Roll?

If the the pot is multiway and the losers in the hand wait the full time to decide if they should show, it will cause a slowroll of the winning hand, while you sit there thinking it is you.

Kind of annoying.
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Old 06-28-2005, 05:32 PM
UATrewqaz UATrewqaz is offline
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Default Re: Slow Roll?

I don't slow roll but I once taunted with the nuts before I called.

I was involved in a huge pot sometime ago and had made a king high straight flush on the turn (the 2nd best possible hand in poker!). The betting was capped 4 ways on every street (trip aces, vs. full house, vs nut flush, vs my straight flush, a dream hand, 47 BB pot or so). And the way the way the betting fell it was up to me to call the last cap on the river.

I proceeded to just laugh at them and tell them they'd all lost etc etc, that had to make them mad and was a little retarded of me but hey it's online poker and I knew I couldn't get my a$$ kicked.

I was all "I have no idea in hell what you all have but they're all losers"
then I was all

"ya'll"
"are"
"about"
"to"
"feel"
"it"

I called the cap and the stone cold nuts took down the pot.

The table then degraded into how PP is rigged [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]
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Old 06-28-2005, 09:15 PM
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Default Re: Slow Roll?

That was a slow roll.

And an assholish thing to do.
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