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[strategy]

Is it ever correct to slow play in pot limit Omaha hi/lo?I've played quite a bit of $25PL lately on PartyPoker, and I've noticed a lot of people slow playing bigger hands.A perfect example came today, where a guy checked it to me on the flop, I had the 2nd best boat, he had the nuts. Turn and river were complete blanks. I was betting $1 a round, seeing as the board didn't have a low draw and my boat was relatively safe (AK and a board of AKK). On the river, the guy checks it to me again, I bet $1 out, and he instantly pots it over the top of me. I call pretty fast because I have the second best hand, and I've seen K2 with a board of AKK2Q do this exact same thing. Surprise surprise, AA. He extracted $10 out of me, when I might have gave him my buyin. Admittedly, it was a stupid call on my part, but that's me being impulsive and new to the game.Everything I've ever read about pot limit games says it's the absolute wrong play because the game is controlled by the size of the pot. If you never bet, you'll never get enough money in the pot to take a bigger chunk of the other guy's stack. When you put in the $10 raise in a $5 pot, it becomes pointless for the other guy to call because there isn't any money worth fighting over. It seems pretty backwards to me.I know there are times where just calling a bet with the nut low is OK. But check-raising and such? Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.By the way. The $25PL games on PartyPoker? About 10 or 20 times easier than the $5PL on Stars.

[srblan]

Against aggressive opponents where you are unlikely to lose by having them back into a better hand, or a low, it is sometimes okay to slow play. I'd really only do it in position though, as in hold 'em, simply because you are less likely to get the hand checked down, or give away information when you are in position.As far as the AKK hand goes, the $1 bet is pretty suspicious, you'd probably be better off checking or potting. If I had been holding AA, I would have potted it on the turn, since your bets showed either extreme strength or extreme weakness, and chances are that he's not going to make any extra raising on the river if you are extremely weak. I'd say potting the turn makes more against strong hands than the dollar that you are likely to bet into him on the river. I wonder what he would have done if you'd reraised him on the river. If he had raised you back, he's another of those warm/fuzzy opponents. That means if you'd had quads (the actual nuts - to someone not holding one of the kings) instead of second best boat, he'd have paid you handsomely. His correct play against a reraise would have probably been to just call, knowing that he can beat everything except the hand that you are representing by reraising.