By monster hand, we mean flopping a royal flush, 4 of a kind, full house, flush, straight, and straight flush. Statistically the hand is yours or practically yours. In most circumstances, the best choice is to slow play.
You want the other players to stay in and build a decent hand that they will bet with or at least call to the river with.
We offer a word of caution though. In the case of flushes and straights, make sure you don't get caught with the low end of a straight or a low card flush, where someone makes the same straight with a higher card, or someone
makes the same flush with a higher card. If you are playing good quality pocket cards though, this should rarely happen.
But if your flush is only a 10 high, bet aggressively and try to force out anyone holding a jack, queen, king or ace of your suit. Granted, most people won't fold with four to a flush, but at least you're making them pay for a chance to get their card.
As a general rule then, slow play the monsters and wait till the more expensive turn and river to begin extracting chips from your opponents.
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