Play Poker Online Free And Slow Play Your Way To Bigger Wins

It's one of those uncommon instances, it can happen when you play poker online for free games and high stakes alike, when you have J-9, for example, and you flop J-J-9.

River comes a 2. One last time you check and the opposition places a large bet, maybe even moves all-in, then you call. At last you show your monster J-9 versus their say, 9-7.

Typically with good made hands (such as AK in a flop of A,10,3) we will bet aggressive in the hope that the opposition will think it's a bluff and play back. Or we hope they'll place us on a draw and call us, or they've got a quality showdown hand that's not good enough for our hand and then call us. Or they're not confident enough to call with their draw (say, KQ) and so fold.

Yet with powerful made hands, in particular at the Flop, such as in the J,9 example, you are able to slow play. That is to say, we play passively on the hope that our opponent will bet strongly so we can take away most of their chips.

Note that with a J-9 in the J-J-9 Flop, our checks may mean, that we may not have anything, or we may have just a draw (say, Q-10) so that they will bet on the hope that they will drive out our draw. They can't. Our hand is like an erect statue already that is nearly impossible to demolish. The 9-7 our opponent has is decent enough to take to showdown.

But with the above, what we really want our opponent to have is the Q-10. Our check may mean that we may have nothing so that they may check along with us or semi-bluff with the open-end Straight draw. We just call.

Why wouldn't we do the same with, say, A-J? Because with A-J, we have only Trips, and we do not want to give our opponent free cards to complete a Straight that can kill off our Trips. So we bet big, or raise big, and hope that the opponent folds, or at least put your opponent in the awkward situation of calling without sufficient pot odds.

But with J-9, we can just play it slowly. Since if the opponent gets his Straight, then he's going to bet large and you can raise him. And it escalates to all-ins and calls and in a jiffy all or most of his chips are yours!

If your opponent didn't hit his Straight, however, your slow play might mean to him that you're the one on a draw, and you are playing passively because you are waiting for the right cards to fall. Nope! The right cards have already fallen! He will bluff, and you can take away all you can. Or he may just be in the proper mood to bluff with any hand (say, K-9 or eve A-K) and you can take his chips.

So, with very big hands that are nearly impossible to beat, we should play it slowly because you want your opponents hand to improve into a nearly-matched hand. If he hits his Straight, for example. Should you raise them he might get scared off and not complete the Straight, and you'll get less chips than if you'd played slow.

Or with 9-7, he may hit an additional Nine, thus giving him a smaller Full House. Another reason is that if your opponent is in such a mood to bluff that he is willing to bluff all the way, even with nothing, then you can strip off his chips, so give him that chance to bluff.

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