Fish

[ladycarver]

I have run into several decent players online who seem to love to slow play, therefore makeing me leary of continuing to bet out on the turn and river unless I'm sure I have the absolute nuts. My problem being it's sometimes hard to tell a calling station (FISH) from a good player who is slow playing in tourneys especially SNG's if there are several fish at the table. I can spot the fish most of the time because they are usually the ones with the bigger stacks early.
How do you spot a slow player? Is there really any way?

[Poker Orifice]

Sure... run their player name thru a playing style stats search site,... if it comes up that they 'generally' play pass. post-flop, start watching for a ton of slowplays. Also, the more a person slowplays the less often they will bluff or semibluff (or at least they will get looked up when they do and won't get paid off on the slowplays).
I think that slowplaying is a tactic that is WAYYYY overused by rookies (they think they're being tricky but it's an amateurish play when over-used). If you're playing TAG style and betting out on a large percentage of your hands when seeing a flop, not only do you give yourself greater bluffing and semi-bluffing oppurtunities but also you're really strong hands are going to get paid off too.
If you see the player has shown themselves to prefer to slowplay big hands, then take advantage of this after the fact (look em up when they bet the flop (or raise)) and always check behind them on other flops if they've checked and you're still hoping to improve on the turn or river and need some help catching up. DON'T semibluff a fl dr. with them when they've checked ahead of you,... take the free card and when you've hit, make them sorry for ever trying to slowplay you in the first place.
GL!!