In a normal game, you only see a player's hole cards in the showdown, which does not happen all that often at Hold 'em, because so many hands are won unseen. Players like Dave ' Devil Fish ' Ullyott and Dave Welch, champions both, are prepared to bluff a lot, to pick up small pots. They read their opponents well and know when to commit themselves. Some players will attack on any kind of hand, which makes them almost impossible to read.
Opponents are too intimidated to call, when holding quite decent cards.
Here is a brilliant instance of ' slow playing ' which came up in the final hand of heat three. Barney Boatman found kings wired and made a small raise. But Trumper had the ' nuts ' with a top straight. A K J Trumper, first to speak, checked. The turn card was a rag .