Quote Originally Posted by gabe
dont slowplay stuff ever
I have to respectfully disagree here. It actually is my tendency too to never slowplay but I've had to adjust this because I was losing lots of value. If we take the typical loose player who has a VPIP of 40+, they'll end up in a lot pots with weak holdings that never hit anything. A fair share of these guys are simply passive and slowplaying against them is retarded, but a large part of those also try to be aggro and they have learned to not do this when you show continuous strength.

When you're up against a guy like that, you'll either hit the board and have them fold, or miss and you'll get blown off the pot. If you never slowplay, there is no way you can catch these guys, unless you happen to hit a major hand that beats their major hand, which is rare.

Typically there are two scenario's:
- slowplay your monster and bet/raise hard on later streets, since they simply won't believe you anymore (works if you typically bet/raise your strong straightforward and do this to mix it up now and then)
- they end up in a hand they simply can't win anymore because their 82o missed the board completely, so when you show weakness they promptly decide to start betting very hard to blow you off the pot. If you never slowplay, there is almost no way you can catch them.

I guess if you're very intuitive about these things, you can play all your strong hands fast and do some calldowns with second/third pair when you think they might be bluffing.. but I'm not that good so I just mix in the occasional slowplay to induce bluffs.