Quote Originally Posted by fade177
SloPoker is a relatively solid player. He tilts a bit quickly but he raises with quality hands. I haven't seen him showdown and show a two pair 94 or something like that. I was thinking 1) I can out stack this player, if it comes down to it, I know I can get him off the hand. 2) It's going to be heads up, I'm no worse than a 2 to 1 underdog right here, and 3) He has seen me play solid poker as well, so he will not suspect this. When I hit two pair on the board, I check knowing that he will bet his A high expecting to take it down. However, I didn't want him to see more cards for free. However, If I raise harder, he folds right there. So I min reraise. When the turn fires a blank, I figure it's time to make him pay for that A high, and place a bet that would force him all in. My reraise already said, I have the best hand unless you improve, and now I was saying, I know you didn't improve but can you call me. I think it was a well played hand, and I played several hands like this at that table. It was fun for once to be the person being sworn at for playing garbage rather than doing the swearing...
The importance in this are your first 6 words.
This strategy only works against tight players or players you can put on a limited number of hands. The flop mini raise though is bad, pump this upto 3 times his bet, your hand can easily be outdrawn. If he pushes your beat, or hes a donk, unlikey a donk on your coments.
This is a good call imo, but making them against the wrong sort of player will cost you money so be careful but keep it up