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[freeringo]

When is it OK to show your cards? and why?

Or is it bad to show your cards ever?

[GloBug]

When is it OK to show your cards? and why?

Or is it bad to show your cards ever?

i never only on ndnpt. u keep em guessing the only bad thing is when u bluff they might call.

[eejit101]

Oooh, a decent question! Love it.


Firstly, I fully agree that showing your cards at certain times is a good thing.

Remember when we played HU the 3 or 4 times we have done, and i always showed you something at some time?

What i try and do is show what i want you to see. If i can show one card and i think its good for me to do it, e.g if i raise a few hands in a row HU and then get called, CB the flop and have some kind of hand, ill show it to avoid being reraised preflop in an attempt to keept he superiority at the table.


Now in a non-HU situation, its slightly different. As normally there is 9 or so other people watching or playing the hand, and they are normally looking for information.

Sometimes if i pull off a great bluff, ill show the hand to try and get less respect. This works well if you plan on then going tight, as if you get a hand within 30 or so hands, and you havent gotten moved, they will remember the crap you had last time and be prepared to call down with a weaker hand than before.

Sometimes ill show a hand when i fol dit if i can to make them see i am capable of laying down big hands, i just did it a few mins ago with KK, i raised preflop, got reraised allin and then someone pushed over. I thought for 1 minute, folded and showed the hand. The allins had 88 and AA. Id have lost as 88 hit a set. Got me lots of respect for future flop bluffs.

I can safely get by not showing my cards though, as giving no information on hands is always a good thing.

Im summary, id say its fine to do it, as long as it is infrequent, and your doing it to benefit your style of play at the time.

[vickid]

wow thanx eejit

and ringo for the question

i show man hands some times liek if i have moster and they fold river or in eejits caes if i pull of a monster bluff but other than that i try not to i like the one card showing on carbon but rarly use it unless it ndnpt or chips game

[freeringo]

I show to mess with people I admit it.
I am mucking my hands my often now.
Thanks

[navuta]

Like Eejit said.
U have to have a good strategy on the motive of showing your cards.

[0maxpower0]

I think that once in awhile, but very rarely you show your hands when you dont have to. rule of thumb, i imagine, is you dont want your opponents to gether any information on you whatsoever, so if someone was watching you closely in a hand, and gets to see what you had, they could use that later if you gave something away during the hand. The only two times I ever do it is to a) get someone on tilt, not a little on tilt ya know, i want to DEFINATELY be sure that hes going to flip after i show him my hand. and b) to make the players at the table "think" a specific thing, like if im SS and not getting hands, the one i play and ideally end up winning without showing i will show, so that in the future when i make the same play, people will have my nut hand in mind. Other than that i dont know why else youd show someone

[freeringo]

I think that once in awhile, but very rarely you show your hands when you dont have to. rule of thumb, i imagine, is you dont want your opponents to gether any information on you whatsoever, so if someone was watching you closely in a hand, and gets to see what you had, they could use that later if you gave something away during the hand. The only two times I ever do it is to a) get someone on tilt, not a little on tilt ya know, i want to DEFINATELY be sure that hes going to flip after i show him my hand. and b) to make the players at the table "think" a specific thing, like if im SS and not getting hands, the one i play and ideally end up winning without showing i will show, so that in the future when i make the same play, people will have my nut hand in mind. Other than that i dont know why else youd show someone

I want people to think they have reads on me.
Heck I never play the same.
I don't even know how I am going to play from 1 hour to the next.
My read is what I precieve what they read about me.
So what am I holding?

[PANAMHIEST]

I will mostly show a few rabbit or pocket cards to kind of throw a player off his game. It works great if you bluff steal someones blinds then show em. They may try to return the favor, and hopefully you have a great hand to catch em, but other than that it just depends on the pace of the game and type of players.

[navuta]

I want people to think they have reads on me.
Heck I never play the same.
I don't even know how I am going to play from 1 hour to the next.
My read is what I precieve what they read about me.
So what am I holding?

Im with you. Tries to play just like that, sometimes changing too much iven.
Have to learn to be more stable. Iven imotionaly.
Get it?