Free Poker Strategy

When choosing to slow play a very strong poker hand on the flop, there are always several issues to consider.

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The first of these issues would be the vulnerability of your strong poker hand in terms of the flop texture, and how the following board cards play out. Making top set on a board with two cards of the same suit showing, would be a less favourable situation to slow play of course. If the turn brings a third card of that suit on the table, then you may be quickly playing your strong poker hand into big trouble.

Strong poker hands should in most cases, be played by betting them, this is partly so that you can gauge potential dangers to your hand by your opponents reactions to your betting. Also, betting your strong poker hand properly is usually the way to extract the most in poker chips too. The very nature of poker is that particular poker plays can work better against some types of players than others, but generally, playing a good poker hand slowly should not be done too often.

Another key issue with playing your poker hand slowly, is that you should only check the action to your opponent on the flop and turn. If you are the first poker player to act and you decide to check the river card to your opponent, you give them the chance to check behind. Most poker players will be suspicious of your check-calling up to this point and will do exactly that if you allow them to on the river. For this reason, you should bet your hand strongly on the river in order to extract maximum value from it.