Slowplay with Aces: good, bad or awful?

[Aplomado]

Once again this is pokerroom, so I have to type this manually.

$5 sng, blinds $100/50

Stacks: Me, $3,000, SethAAZ, $1,800
Dealing pocket cards: [Ah, Ac]
4 folds
SethAAZ bets $300
2 folds
Aplomado raises to $500
Seth AAZ calls $500
Dealing Flop: [10d, 3h, 2s]
Aplomado bets $100
SethAAZ calls $100
Dealing Turn: [Ad]
Aplomado checks
SethAAZ bets $300
Aplomado calls $300
Dealing River: [Qd]
Aplomado bets $200

[Blinky]

Interesting way to play the hand.

Flop bet is odd is the best that I can say (no offense intended).

I probably bet out on the turn though, or put the opp AI rather than check-calling. If he wants to see the last card (for whatever reason) he's going to pay for it.

[Fortune 500]

Right here is where you lose the right to slowplay. Don't lose sight of the fact that you've only got one pair.

Dealing Flop: [10d, 3h, 2s]
Aplomado bets $100
SethAAZ calls $100

You're giving overs pretty good odds here, and when your A comes on the turn, it's a good card for you, but creates a lot of danger on the board in terms of straights and flushes.

I'm charging a higher entry fee to that river, just to be safe... and it sees that river presents a fair amount of danger.

[thnwkd]

Slow playing Aces in certain situations can be very profitable, for instance when you're up against very aggr opp, however it can also cost you your stack. good thing here you have him covered.

To the hand...

Your pf raise is good

your flop bet is bad... though it may be good if you're trying to induce a bluff?

the turn chk is also ok, if you intend to chk and raise but u just cal, so it is awful. if you lost the hand this is the spot i think.

the river is of no consequence to the analysis of the hand either u win or lose when he moves AI

the good, bad and awful how i see it

[aislephive]

I hate the min-bet here, it's a really weak play. Slowplaying aces is something I almost never do. With the exception being if it's folded to me in the SB I may just limp. Or in the BB if the SB limps I might just check. It sucks when it backfires and somebody takes your stack though.

[Alibi]

I'm starting to view Aces as just another hand instead of the elevated sense of power that is normally associated with it. I rarely slow play them.

[Aplomado]

your flop bet is bad... though it may be good if you're trying to induce a bluff?

Yeah that was the purpose. Unfortunately it didn't work.

the turn chk is also ok, if you intend to chk and raise but u just cal, so it is awful. if you lost the hand this is the spot i think.

Yeah I think I might have slowplayed that a little too much, probably should have raised him instead of calling. Was hoping to make another weak-looking bet on the river and get him to make another bluff. He ended up folding to the min-bet.

Basically throughout the hand I was trying to wave a big flag that said "I'm weak, bet big and I'll leave the pot."

[zenbitz]

Check-raise turn. Doesn't have to be huge, but enough to kill drawing odds.

At first I misread and thought that it was HU from the start. I think in that case, you played it well.... but it's a regular hand, so I'm not willing to get drawn out on while slowplaying.

[TLR]

I would raise a bit more preflop, probably to 600.
I would probably bet the flop more agressively but I can accept your attempt to induce a bluff.
however once he bets on the turn I would push it.

The way you played it you have to bet more on the river as well I think - the pot is 1800 - half of his stack is already there - he is either folding or calling for all his chips - I would bet 900