If you check-raise with A♠ 8♠ on the 6♠ 4♠ 3♠ flop, for example, your A♠ alone blocks 17% of your opponent's calling range. Additionally, your 8♠ blocks lower flushes, making it a bit less likely you will take a big chunk of chips from your opponent in a flus...
Extremely bad players build big pots when weak and win small ones when strong. They play ‘backwards poker’ and inevitably lose their bankrolls. The idea of slowplaying is to try and win chips that you would not have won had you played your hand ‘fast’. For example by getting an opp...