thx, jack. i would pm this to you, but it may have value to others here, as well.Originally Posted by Jack Sawyer
please no one think i am trying to be the "authority" on the subject...i have simply been focusing very heavily on TPTK situations lately because i am sick of getting burned by overplaying it.
i read this somewhere, but would implement it on occasion...NOT SLOWPLAYING AS A RULE. but, think of the reasoning here...
lets say the board is dry. A 8 4 rainbow and you hold AK. you raised pf, and villain (maybe two) called. you are either so ahead here or so behind. if you are oop, why would you lead out or c/r? you fold off absolutely everything but AQ (maybe) and 88, 44. ok, we all may know that one. but, lets reverse positions.
you are now in position, and get donk bet. why would you ever raise here? (i used to for the sake of "taking initiative" or "getting value" or "F you big guy...i got it this time" ALL BAD) again, why raise? to find out where you stand? NO. let them keep leading. AQ leads. KK leads. hell, TT or KQ may lead to. with all that leading into you, why would you raise them off? sure, 88 may lead...prolly not. he wants AK to lead into him!! let them keep leading here, and take more money. you will lose some times...oh well. but you will lose the minimum. if you get frisky with the worst of it, you will lose your stack a lot more often than you can take a gillion small pots to overcome.
this is the most simplistic case of WA/WB i can think of. of course, board textures and your own holdings change everything, and some times you have to bet at some point...like the KJ hand above probably. but when you are WA/WB you may want to think twice about WHY you are raising, and WHAT you are trying to accomplish.
this coming from the most chronic of all "raising for the case of raising alone" people you will ever meet.
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