Poker eLife

Slow playing means deceiving your opponents into thinking you have less of a hand then you do. For example, suppose you hold KK. The flop comes K33, so you flopped a full house! There is no need to scare people out of the pot because there is little chance of someone drawing out on you.

Thus, you should wait to the turn or maybe even river to jam the pot with bets and raises. You should slow play if two conditions are met:

1. You hold a whopper and there is almost no chance of someone drawing out on you.

2. You will only get action if some other cards come out that will improve your opponents’ poker hands, but these cards are not good enough to make these poker hands beat yours.