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Poker Articles

If you want to keep up with all the strategy articles I've written, then look no further! Sort by topic, publication date, or alphabetical order. Some articles are available here in full. For others, check out the abstracts, and use the citations to obtain the articles in full.

Fundamentals of Slowplaying

Poker Helper, Feb 2007

When you get a monster hand in a no limit hold ’em game, you’d like to take down a gigantic pot. Slowplaying, also known as sandbagging, is playing a huge hand passively, in the hopes that your opponents will catch hands that they’ll pay you off with. Some players slowplay every time they hit a big hand, thinking that they are maximizing their winnings. After all, doing so seems intuitively correct. However, by automatically slowplaying, these players are actually costing themselves money in the long run. Deciding when to slowplay a big hand is really a function of what your opponents hold and how they play. To see this concept in action, let’s consider an example hand. ...

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