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Sometimes in Texas Hold ‘Em poker poker, the flop hits a player big time. Perhaps you flop a not-so-obvious straight with your inside connectors or a set that goes on to complete to a bigger hand. Most often you can build up the pots with these hands and rake in plenty of chips.

Then there are times when a poker online player hits a true monster on the flop, but unfortunately the monster hit basically cripples the deck for the other players and there will be little, if any, betting action. This situation develops when you are holding big pocket cards like Aces or Kings and then flop quads. With two matching cards out there and the other two in your hand, no one else at the table holds anything that looks to beat the board.

When you hit these monsters, for instance quads with your pocket Jacks, you can only slow play them and hope someone else holds a higher card that does pair the board. There is even a small chance that someone will hit a set, and with the paired cards on board, completes a full house.

Any time you know you hold the nuts, you want to carefully plan how to get maximum return for the hand. In most cases though, you’ll get very little action with flopped monsters because it has crippled the deck, and slow playing is the only way you’ll get anyone to put chips into the pot. Remember this when you play poker online.

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