Hi!
I was accused of slow-rolling the other day at a friendly game that I had joined for the first time. I knew one guy from the bunch and he invited me to game he frequented with his friends. Everyone else was nice though and I always try to be. I do, however, take my sweet time on some bets and calls sometimes, especially with new people, not just to make the decision in front of me, but to maybe pick up a tell or something as well.
Anyway, in this particular hand, We had played down to 5-handed with me second of third in chips. I woke up to A-4 suited from UTG and min-raised. Got re-raised by the chip leader, and I should've folded maybe but I said wth and called. Flop comes 2-3-5 rainbow, I raise half the pot (which was 10BB) and chip leader makes another raise. At this point I should be insta-calling or even going all in, but the chip leader was loose and bluffed a lot up to this point, and somehow I couldn't shake the feeling that, He knows I may have the straight, and he's got 4-6 suited or something that he was hoping to 4-bet pre-flop and collect the pot there since I min-raised (I was also loosening up, obviously, so he would've been right to assume that my hand wasn't brilliant) and suddenly he's got a 6-high straight. After thinking for a considerable amount of time, I decided to just call and he had Pocket deuces So I won. He accused me of slow-rolling him and hollywooding, which I honestly am not a good enough poker player to do. Also, I had no incentive to hollywood because I wasn't gonna go all-in against the chip leader without the absolute nuts (maybe I'm crazy but not the point of this post) as there were two very short stacks left and I wanted to at least end up in the money (first 3 players) and I tried to explain all this. Anyway, when it turned out that he had pocket deuces it did occur to me that it can totally look like a slow-roll from his POV, but that wasn't my intention, nor it ever was to slow-roll anybody. I was honestly genuinely considering the fact that he may have 4-6.
What do you think? Was this a slow-roll? Should I have insta-called with 5-high straight and no possibility of flush? Was it ridiculous to think a pre-flop 4-better to have 4-6?
Thanks for reading and for your responses in advance.