Slowplay... did save my money?

I think so... Because I cannot find a bet sequence here where the villain could fold his hand.

99 vs AKs - Poker Hand Replays

PS: I know that my river call was dumb, but I still wanted to see what he had.

[alan292]

no m8 there was nothing was gonna make your opponant fold that hand...

[bls12]

i think you extracted what you could out of him if you had gone allin there was always a chance he would fold so $12 was a good bet you might of got a little more but you won the hand and made a few quid n1

a little often is better than none at all

Originally Posted by bls12

i think you extracted what you could out of him if you had gone allin there was always a chance he would fold so $12 was a good bet you might of got a little more but you won the hand and made a few quid n1

a little often is better than none at all

But... I lost the hand.
He hit quads at the river.

[bls12]

Originally Posted by luzipher

But... I lost the hand.
He hit quads at the river.

sorry mate i thought you had the AK guess slow play was the right move then sorry again

well obv, but that's being results oriented

you're a 95% favorite on the flop, ~75% ish on the turn (iirc), gotta raise somewhere to get value out of him

as played, river is probably a fold, you only beat a 3barrel with AQ/AJ and his rather small bet looks like it's dying for a call

Originally Posted by bluelips imo

well obv, but that's being results oriented

you're a 95% favorite on the flop, ~75% ish on the turn (iirc), gotta raise somewhere to get value out of him

as played, river is probably a fold, you only beat a 3barrel with AQ/AJ and his rather small bet looks like it's dying for a call

Is results oriented... really?
He was the preflop raiser, so I just flat call the flop bet with probably the best hand. A reraise there and he probably would fold a hand like AQ, AJ or even TT.
The flush draw was a risk, but I can live with that and the flat call may induce him to do the second barrel. I felt good with the turn, and yes... could be raise there but the only hand that can call my raise is a hand holding a K. And with a raise in the turn the hand would finish in an allin.
Probably a raise would finish the hand right there if the villain don't hold a K and would finish with an allin if he holded.

As already said, the river call was stupid, I know, but with a blank in the river he probably would make a 3barrel anyway (trips and top kicker) and probably he would call my raise there.
I think I played the hand in the right way (forgetting the stupid river call, of course).

[phalemi24]

yes...i think slowplay saved you a lot of money here...

[mnyinthbnk]

The slowplay may have saved you money in this instance, but I think that in general you're better off raising the flop for value there.

If villian has any Kx type hand (which is exactly what you're hoping for when you hit your set), he probably isn't getting away from it easily, and if you raise the flop it's much easier to set up a psb shove for his stack on the river. When he doesn't river quads of course.