Friendly Reminder

[Naismith 0]

There's not a lot of content here. I have a collection of slow played hands gone wrong somewhere that I printed out as a reminder. I wish I could find some more -- I need it after limping UTG with aces the other night and folding on a KJT flop. Anyhow, consider these two fun hands a friendly reminder about how much fun slow playing is. I'm also including one of my earliest posts on FCP about this topic. :)Texas Hold'em $10-$10 NL (real money), #1,474,603,901Seat 1: sindy2 ($1,182 in chips)Seat 4: OtisTP ($1450 in chips)Seat 6: lent53 ($983 in chips)Seat 8: AFCWanda ($1,526 in chips)Seat 10: supnagga ($985 in chips)ANTES/BLINDSOtisTP posts blind ($5), lent53 posts blind ($10).PRE-FLOPAFCWanda folds, supnagga calls $10, sindy2 folds, OtisTP folds, lent53 checks.FLOP [board cards 5H,JC,2H ]lent53 checks, supnagga checks.TURN [board cards 5H,JC,2H,AS ]lent53 checks, supnagga bets $20, lent53 bets $55, supnagga calls $35.RIVER [board cards 5H,JC,2H,AS,7C ]lent53 bets $918 and is all-in, supnagga calls $918.SHOWDOWNlent53 shows [ 3D,4H ]supnagga shows [ 2D,2C ]lent53 wins $1,968.*******Texas Hold'em $10-$10 NL (real money), #1,475,078,957Seat 1: throwdown10 ($454.70 in chips)Seat 3: larson19 ($532.50 in chips)Seat 5: 0207 ($72.50 in chips)Seat 6: OtisTP ($2834 in chips)ANTES/BLINDSOtisTP posts blind ($5), throwdown10 posts blind ($10).PRE-FLOPlarson19 calls $10, 0207 calls $10, OtisTP calls $5, throwdown10 checks.FLOP [board cards 8C,9C,JS ]OtisTP bets $15, throwdown10 folds, larson19 calls $15, 0207 bets $62.50 and is all-in, OtisTP calls $47.50, larson19 bets $150, OtisTP calls $102.50.TURN [board cards 8C,9C,JS,KS ]OtisTP checks, larson19 bets $357.50 and is all-in, OtisTP calls $357.50.RIVER [board cards 8C,9C,JS,KS,KH ]SHOWDOWNlarson19 shows [ AH,AC ]0207 shows [ QC,3C ]OtisTP shows [ 10H,7D ]OtisTP wins $920, OtisTP wins $225.50.*******"I'm posting this knowing in advance that it was idiotic. I'm putting it up here just as another reminder to anyone who wants to slowplay their aces. I was playing 1-2 NL. I bought in for the max of 200 and was sitting on about 420 at this point when I rolled up pocket bullets UTG. Now, *I NEVER SLOWPLAY ACES*! I really don't. But I decided to get fancy for some stupid reason and just called, hoping for a raise. No one raised, which put us six-handed and made my soul cry. The flop came 5-6-8, two diamonds. I bet out 10 dollars and got two callers before the big blind made it 60 to go. I mucked my aces and then the first of the two callers went all in for his last 340. The second caller called, which put him all in for about 330. They had JJ and KK. Predictably, the big blind called with 7-4 and won the monster pot. Regardless, if I just raise my aces *LIKE I ALWAYS DO!!!*, I'm getting all of their money in the pot and there's no 7-4 to worry about. That one was more costly, emotionally, than any bad beat I've suffered. Anyhow, hopefully this will serve as just another reminder to anyone considering slowplaying their aces. Peace, Jay"