Posted by Johnnymac 9:02 PM
See, I buy a house and I end up getting excited about "heavy trash day" and neglect my duties to the poker blog. This is pathetic.

Anyway, to contribute to the discussion about big hands - many inexperienced or poor players might also explain that they don't play big starting hands fast because they "always get beat".

(I wouldn't necessarily call this "slowplaying" because it's not done out of strategy for the purpose of trapping or stealing bets)

This mentality is something of a self-fulfilling prophesy - if you are afraid to bet big then yes, the draws will all stay in and one of them will beat you. This is akin to "implict collusion" - no, this is implicit collusion - because while big hands have an edge over each individual drawing hand, collectively, the totality of the drawing hands together has a bigger edge than the big hand. No individual hand will necessarily beat AA every time, but one of them certainly will if it's constantly 5 vs 1 seeing every flop.

I could make this really complicated and start talking about low-limit theory versus expected value, etc etc, but I'll just stick with the comment about the self-fulfilling nature of such attitudes.

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