I wanted to follow up a little bit further on Wein's comment in the Leak discussion post. He mentioned that a common thread was too much slowplaying and needing to play hands faster to prevent lost value. My follow up question(s) on this is: By trying to play crafty and trying (successfully or unsuccessfully) to induce players into stacking off/bluffing off are we in general allowing to many other players to either catch up or represent catching up and losing out on significant value, as opposed to betting strong and playing showdown poker with hands that hit well? I guess the root of my question is this: Does it make more sense to play a strategy that revolves around an image of being willing to take any of your made hands to showdown?  For me I think this represents a fairly decent shift in my thinking as my planning for hands usually revolves around trying to be as clever as I can to get my opponent to volunteer (can't think of a better word there) his/her stack to me because he thinks he has the best of it, and moving more to a strategy of allowing my bet sizing to fold out the weaker hands and letting guys who are married to their hands come along and prices I set. Interested in what others think.