Slowplaying is a very effective advanced strategy that helps to build up the pot and increase the amount of money that you find yourself winning.
Slowplaying is when you check or just call a strong hand on one round of betting so that you can win more bets on later rounds.
Basically what you want to do is slowplay a strong hand because you think your opponent will fold if you bet. You give your opponent a free card provided this is not dangerous. This way they may improve their hand enough to call your next bet.
Many players tend to slowplay too often. There are several situations where slowplaying can be harmful.
I recommend that you don’t slowplay under these conditions:
A free card that could beat you.
When the pot is large.
When a free card would not give your opponents a good second-best hand.
When there are many opponents in the hand.
When there are weak opponents in the hand.
To sum things up, slowplaying is another deceptive tactic to confuse your opponents and gain yourself additional bets when they would have otherwise folded. Slowplaying is risky however, when free cards can hurt you and the pot is already large. You will also find that Slowplaying can backfire sometimes when you would have gained bets anyhow against weak opponents or an opponent who already has a strong hand.
