Confused about sandbagging

JoeyT · #1 03-02-2003, 12:37 AM

What is it exactly? seen it used in a few different contexts and am confused at this point.

BruceZ · #2 03-02-2003, 01:57 AM

In everyday parlance, it means acting weak when you are strong. In poker, it refers to checkraising (checking your hand and then raising when an opponent bets), or the much rarer play of just calling a bet and then reraising when an opponent raises. I believe the term technically applies only to these two situations rather than slowplaying in general where you wait until a future round to act strong, but someone could conceivably use the term to refer to slowplaying as well.

Billy LTL · #3 03-02-2003, 02:49 AM

I had the great good fortune to be sitting between two aggressive players holding 2nd and 3rd nuts in a recent home game. Each round of betting was capped. The only raise I made in the hand was a cap on the final betting round.

I sandbagged them with a straight flush. My str8flush was bigger than one opponent's str8flush. The other guy had a measly four kings.

The game was pass-the-trash by the way.

Billy

BruceZ · #4 03-02-2003, 04:08 AM

Nothing to do with sandbagging, but I beat a royal flush with 5 of a kind a few weeks ago. We were playing 5 card poker with a wild card, with a card being received for each mark in a bowling game [img]/forums/images/icons/grin.gif[/img] The royal had no wild cards.

Billy LTL · #5 03-02-2003, 05:00 AM

The royal had no wild cards.

That made me laugh.