Poker Tips - Slow Players Suck
So I was playing in a 2/4 home games the other day and I ran into a silly pot that featured not one, two but three slow players. If you don’t know what a ’slow player’ is, it is someone that has good cards but checks so-as to pretend their cards are not strong and once you bet they raise you up and take all your money.
The game was Omaha and I was on the button, there was the typical pre-flop raise of $4 more and after the flop it was checked around to me. Three spades came on the flop and I figured I would bet $24 with my 8,10 of spades to see what was going on. The two players after me folded and the rest just flat called. At that point I figured my flush was good and they were trying for boats or maybe even a straight flush. It was checked around to me on the turn and I bet $40, flat called again by three players. River is a brick and checked again to me, thinking I was top dog I bet $80 and was called by two then the third raised $80 more. I called as did one other and what do you know, one of them held K,2 spades and the other had 1,3 spades so I was in third place with my crappy flush. The last slow player that folded on the final bet flopped trip jacks and never converted.
That is why I love playing at a table full of ‘retarded’, I mean slow players.