Severest Slowroll Ever?

[Nate.]

Last night. Casino Arizona 40-80.

I post a $60 kill on the button. This hand is played at 60-120 stakes. Three loose players limp, a slightly tighter guy limps, a regular raises, a tightish guy 3-bets out of the blind, I fold (strange, getting used to a kill acting last,) everyone else calls.

6 to the flop for 3 bets. $1160. Flop Jh 6h 3c. The blind bets. Four calls.

$1460 in the pot as the turn pairs the jack. Someone not in the hand turns to the blind and says "wow, that card probably killed your hand." The blind says "I'm betting anyway" and bets. Three calls, and then the regular raises, leaving himself five $10 chips. Everyone calls.

$2660 in the pot going into the river, which is a non-board-pairing flush card. Everyone checks to the regular who stares at the board, looks at his cards, and seems to examine the empty felt where numerous stacks have been replaced by five lonely chips. A few seconds pass. He finally decides that even though he can't face a raise he can't even stick the last $50 in -- someone had to have a flush draw, right?

So he taps the table and turns over J9 and gives a head-flick like "OK, table your flush, whichever of you bastards has it." Everyone briefly looks at the blind, who is busy squinting at his obvious big pair. Then we all look at the three loose limpers, conveniently clustered in the 1-, 2-, and 3-seats. The 2 picks his cards up so the 1 and 3 can see them, but the 1 is too busy looking at the pile consisting of a kill button and 2.66 racks of brown chips to pay any attention.

Now the regular starts to get excited. Everyone with a live hand has had all the information necessary to claim the pot for several seconds now. He pushes his jack forward a little and seems to search for something to tip with. The 1-seat has by now slid his hand into the muck and the 2-seat has flung his away.

A pregnant pause later, the 3-seat holds his hand a foot in front of his face and then, in overhand flyswatter style, tables the 9h-7h.

The game, already profitable, was about to get even better.

--Nate

[AngusThermopyle]

Guess Arizona doesn't have a concealed carry law.

[deucedeuce00]

LOL at "flyswatter style"

[The DaveR]

Great story but you're a distant second place.

Calling Entity and all witnesses!

[BrunoThePug]

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Guess Arizona doesn't have a concealed carry law.

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Oh it does. [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[Nate.]

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Great story but you're a distant second place.

Calling Entity and all witnesses!

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DaveR --

Thanks for the compliment.

I wasn't actually expecting that this be crowned the world's severest slowroll -- one reason is that I've never been to Commerce, but I've heard stories.

I also wanted to invite others to share slowrolling stories, but didn't want to distract from the story. So, share.

--Nate

[Bremen]

Was it a slowroll? I mean if seat 3 was just waiting for seats 1&2 to muck or show an argument could just be made he was waiting for the action to get to him.

[Nate.]

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Was it a slowroll? I mean if seat 3 was just waiting for seats 1&2 to muck or show an argument could just be made he was waiting for the action to get to him.

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One could strictly interpret the showing-in-turn-clockwise protocol and say that 3 was waiting for 1 and 2. But 3 knew that he had the winner as soon as 2 exposed his cards to him and 1 wasn't doing anything but mustering the will to stop hoping his hand would become a full house.

Even if we grant the 3 seat the full force of this protocol -- which, I think, etiquette demands we partially suspend in cases such as this one, when there is zero chance he's going to be giving away free information he wouldn't get anyway -- he still took several more beats as he surveyed the scene, held his hand up where the rest of the table couldn't see it, and then tabled it.

So, in my view, reasonable interpretations range from moderate pause to very long pause. In a huge pot with a near-felted player riding the exponential surge in confidence that comes once you've tabled a hand, the former is more than enough to label this a severe slowroll.

--Nate

[pig4bill]

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Guess Arizona doesn't have a concealed carry law.

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Unconcealed as well. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[Lester_M]

My favorite is the classic Two-Pair-Slowroll. It is rare, because you can only use it in special circumstances. First of all, you need to have Quads, and they need to be concealed well enough for the "2pr" claim to be believable. Secondly, your opponent needs to have a hand that crushes 2pr, but not quads. Third, you need to have a pretty good feel for your opponent, or pretty good running shoes on. Seriously. Then, as the excited player shows down his flush or set or whatever, you look sad and say something to the tune of: "Oh, that's too bad... all I have is Two-Pair... Eights and....... (long pause before rolling).... EIGHTS!!!!" (Scoop pot with both hands grinning wildly)
Beautiful.


I was playing a buddy's chips the other night at Ceasar's Palace when I flopped a monster. He returned from the bathroom just as I was pushing all in on a flop of all clubs. Shocked to see all of his chips in the center of the table, he asked to see what I had that I could bet like that with. I showed him the Ace of Clubs and said "Pray for me" He sweated as I was called and the board rolled out hearts and spades. My opponent showed down a flopped two pair, and just as my pal patted me on the back with an ever-so-sad "dude" sigh, I exposed (what else?) the King of Clubs. Of course I had it, duh! What else would I be all in with. I didn't have to slow roll my opponent on this hand, it all happenned so fast that he never could have noticed the drama that my pal was going through, rooting for me, then thinking I was losing all his money, to seeing that we had the stone nuts! What excitement. All it cost me was a charlie-horse to the arm. Fun times.