IMO it's pretty simple, you should basically never slow play unless your in a pot with a super agro player that always bets when checked to. The rare guy that will fire 3 streets w/ nothing. Aside from that bet your hand.

Slow playing is -ev the vast majority of the time. If I have AA and flop A J 5, I'm leading out. If I have 44 on a 4 4 K board I'm leading.

The fact of the matter is, someone either has a hand they want to continue with, be it value or a bluff, or they don't. I want to win the max. slow playing and hoping they pick up 2nd pair or a backdoor draw might gain a single bet at most,(or they get free cards to make some crazy draw and actually win) where as leading/raising when they have a hand gets all the money in.

yes they will fold most of the time. But that 1/4 1/5 time when they actually hit the flop hard and get 100+ bb's in it far out ways winning 15 bb's ott once in awhile slow playing.

Above poster is 100% correct. Slowplaying these hands most of the time just means the pot stays small until the river..and will only get bigger at that point if villain caught up.

I like a 3-bet PF. JJ is too often ahead PF to strictly turn it into a set mine. Plus it will get you more information...if the tight passive villain 4-bet shoves you, its then an easy fold- you will know you are behind.

Dont slowplay the flop. Im personally betting out here...like patchohare said, either he has a hand to continue or he doesnt. If your original concern that he may have an overpair is correct, theres no way he is getting away from it on that dry board. Bet out, if he folds he folds...you wouldnt of gotten action from him anyway. YOU turned into the passive player by checking it OTF and OTT...and put yourself to a decision that wasnt necessary.

AP..this isnt really a decision. You really cant fold a set OTR for $100 at this point.

grunch

I c/r flop vs the dude you described

no you can't ever fold here esp for this price...300 more and I would consider it, just gotta take the cooler like a man and reload, althought I feel beat we can't fold a set for just 100 more ever but yeah for 250-300 more I probably would

Grunch

Meh, I'd call after you underrepresented your hand so much. Villain wouldn't put you on a set of jacks.

I would have bet the flop and would definitely bet the turn. I'd even consider a 3-bet pf.

I don't see why AK, AQ or AJ can't be in his range. Maybe he even raises QJs.

What card could possibly come on the river if he has KK or QQ that would make him call a bet on the river? If we're assuming he folds KK and QQ because an ace showed up on the turn, then surely he folds the river unless he hits. That ace which showed up on the turn won't disappear when the river card shows up. The ace will still be there to scare this villain.

As a result, you get no extra value from slowplaying against KK and QQ on the turn. Villain gets extra value from the free card which might beat you.

The river card could easily scare him even more if he has QQ and a king shows up. Even a Q could scare him if he has KK because maybe you had a straight, or maybe you had QJ and checked the turn because the ace scared you, and from his perspective maybe you made 2 pair on the river with QJ when the Q hit.

Slowplaying the turn against KK and QQ just costs you money.