THE ART OF SLOW PLAY

Yet another string to add to your bow when you next play a poker match with your new customised poker chips. This is a slightly less obvious form of play than the check-raise but is bound to increase the amount of customised poker chips you win in the long run if you slow-play when the time is right.

What is Slow-Play?

The check-raise occurs in one betting and gambling round. Slow-play is slightly more long term in that it occurs throughout an entire poker hand rather than one betting round. You slow-play a poker hand if you play slowly in early betting rounds, with a view to raising strongly with your customised poker chips in later betting rounds. This allows you to maximise your winnings of customised poker chips.

How do I Slow-Play a Poker Hand?

In the early betting rounds, you should merely check or call with your poker hand (which you consider to be the best poker hand in play at that time). By putting the minimum amount of customised poker chips down on the poker table, you are deceiving your poker opponents into thinking you are weak. Then, you can make the most of this deception later in the poker hand by raising strongly when another poker player believes he/she has control of the pot.

What are the Best Poker Hands to Slow-Play?

Essentially, there are two criteria for slow-play:

1) Your poker hand must be very strong
2) It must be likely that if you bet customised poker chips, your opponents would all fold

The first criteria is often under-valued by poker players. You will see many poker players holding back their customised poker chips and not betting hands like K-Q because they think they are so strong they can slow-play before the flop. This is so dangerous as someone with 7-2 could hit a 2 and be beating you if you don’t pair-up! So you must have a strong pair before you can consider slow-playing and holding back your customised poker chips for later betting and gambling rounds.

We have played at casinos where some poker players are even too scared to slow-play two aces from an early position. They still raise just as aggressively with their customised poker chips. This perhaps is incorrect play as a poker player in a later position was bound to raise customised poker chips if it was checked to them. If the timid poker player was too scared to see a flop beat his aces, he could have raised all-in with his customised poker chips there and then to take down the pot!

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