Slow play this?

[Cavalry21]

4th hand of SnG, one guy out on 2nd hand, I took the pot 3rd with ATs after a 789 rainbow flop with a 3/4 pot bet after a 4xBB Raise preflop.

------HAND 4------
Game #441998123: Texas Hold'em No Limit (7/15) - 2005/03/14 - 20:29:56 (EST)
Table "STT1 416102 - 1" Seat 5 is the button.
Seat 1: Toprod (1000 in chips)
Seat 2: Brindle (640 in chips)
Seat 3: Cavalry21 (1068 in chips)
Seat 4: zol19232 (970 in chips)
Seat 6: Lucky-bob (2562 in chips)
Seat 7: Bruc19061 (985 in chips)
Seat 8: Myth_Dark (820 in chips)
Seat 9: Torada (970 in chips)
Seat 10: PuVagrant (985 in chips)
Lucky-bob: posts small blind 7
Bruc19061: posts big blind 15
----- HOLE CARDS -----
dealt to Cavalry21 [As 3s]
Myth_Dark: folds
Torada: calls 15
PuVagrant: folds
Toprod: calls 15
Brindle: folds
Cavalry21: calls 15
zol19232: folds
Lucky-bob: calls 8
Bruc19061: checks
----- FLOP ----- [7s 3d 3c]
Lucky-bob: checks
Bruc19061: checks
Torada: checks
Toprod: checks
Cavalry21: bets 75
Lucky-bob: folds
Bruc19061: folds
Torada: folds
Toprod: folds
Returned uncalled bets 75 to Cavalry21
Cavalry21: doesn't show hand
Cavalry21 collected 75 from Main pot
----- SUMMARY -----
Total pot 75 Main pot 75 Rake 0
Board [7s 3d 3c]
Seat 1: Toprod folded on the Flop
Seat 2: Brindle folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: Cavalry21 collected 75
Seat 4: zol19232 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: Lucky-bob (small blind) folded on the Flop
Seat 7: Bruc19061 (big blind) folded on the Flop
Seat 8: Myth_Dark folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: Torada folded on the Flop
Seat 10: PuVagrant folded before Flop (didn't bet)

[a500lbgorilla]

Big field and no callers.

It happens. Giving a free card might create a little action but with such a big field, betting it in position is a good line.

-'rilla

[Fortune 500]

It's rarely a good idea to slowplay trips. The flop has to be real uncoordinated for that.

And you don't want to let straights, backdoor flushes, someone with that 7, or a small pocket pair draw out. Could get ugly.

Sucks to just win the antes. Sucks worse to lose your whole stack.

[teddosan]

Let me relay an experience from a bar tournament last night to illustrate why "we don't slowplay trips":

150 people started the tourney and it's down to 30. As always in these tournaments, the blinds are coming up fast. I need to do something. (It's like 2k / 4k and I only have about 25k in chips.) Well, I get dealt 55 on the button. One guy limps; everyone else folds to me. Maybe a bad idea, but I limp. SB folds BB checks. Flop comes out A5K rainbow. Hell yes! I am going to take down one of these suckers and double up my stack! This is what low pocket pairs are made for! Check, check to me. Hmm... No one had a A or K... Okay, I want to keep at least one of these guys around to nail him; I bet min, 4000. BB folds, middle guy calls. Turn is 7. Middle guy bets 15k. HAHA! He smelled weakness on me and now he wants to steal this pot! I reraise all-in. He immediatelty calls. Okay... He must have tried to slowplay his pocket Ace. Confidently I toss my 55 on the table and everyone goes "Oh, trip 5's!" I'm feeling pretty good about my sly play... until he turns up his pocket 7's. That's why we don't slowplay our small trips...

[iwa]

I would have slowplayed this hand with this flop, check for a free card... Uncoordinated flop like this, you can slow play this without too much of a loss.

[TylerK]

I give a free card to let someone make a good 2nd-best hand. There aren't any obvious draws out there, and it's unlikely that anyone has much of anything. It defeats the purpose of playing a junk hand like A3s if you're not going to win anything with it when you hit.

Bottom line is that you're going to have to take some risks if you want to win anything with this hand. If you give a free card and 64 hits his gutshot or something silly like that, oh well. Cards happen.

[aokrongly]

I agree. Give a card on this.

[lolzzz_321]

Meh, I'd bet it, never know who is holding 45 and is going to make a gutshot. I bet it to see where I stand, if I get a call it's time to figure out what the other guy has with a turn bet...

[lovemachine]

same thing happened to me yesterday when i limped with 44 and hit trips, rainbow flop, nothing to worry about, so i thought. i slow played the flop and big blind hit his gutshow straight draw to take a big chunk of change from me. but i'd say slowplaying this pays off more times than not. go ahead and bet it in the future if there is a flush draw though