Quote Originally Posted by spoonitnow
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This too. To carry my analysis a step further, since slowplay works best when your opponents can improve to a lot of second-best hands that will allow you to collect additional bets on later streets, if you follow spoon's (and Zelda's) advice and put your opponents on a range, you can then analyze if that range contains a lot of hands with outs to improve to a bettable second-best hands, and not a lot of hands that either beat you or have decent odds to improve and beat you.

So you need the two reads to slowplay-- (1) that your opponents aren't actually going to pay you off if you get money into the pot now, and (2) that your opponents' range includes lots of hands that can improve and be more bettable on later streets without improving to beat you.