showing cards

[GOIRISH]

Why do people do it? Is there some strategy involved in showing cards after you won a hand. I dont know how many times on sbr poker tourney within the first 5 minutes some guy raises all in pre flop and when everyone folds shows his A,K off suited. Do you want a round of applause?

[thetrinity]

different reasons for different players, very wide spectrum.

[stefan084]

they want you to think they'll always have the goods so you'll fold when they don't

[BigDaddy]

i do it very rarely

but i do it for a reason.

[HoulihansTX]

Its practically like laying your 12' inch dikk out on the table, if you have one, and saying "Look @ me."

[ROFLcopter]

Some of you guys are clueless lol

[BIGDAY]

I always show. I just do it because I figure people want to know what I had. Sometimes I have a good hand, sometimes I have sh!t.

I do it because I always wonder what other people have, and I think they wonder what I have, so I show em.

People like BigDaddy use showing to bully.

He shows when he bluffed, then I call his bluff next hand and the prick has pocket Ks.

I suk at poker.

[Dutch]

Show the nuts so you can bluff later on.

Show a bluff so that they will call you down later on when you have the nuts.

This is common sense.

[daneblazer]

You show bluffs so that the other player will widen their range, give yourself the tab;e image of a lag/loose player, or put the other player on tilt if he's teetering on the edge of it. Then you act accordingly to get paid off later. There aren't many times it's really necessary. Showing off too many bluffs, shoves, and great hands is a death wish against good players.

[ROFLcopter]

Showed a bluff one time, and got the same moron who thought he was hot shit to call me down with AJ high, no pairs, and took about 300 off him on a 1/2 table. That's why you show bluffs. He probably posts here. This was at the Borgata.

[BernardMadoff]

I do it to piss people off. Poker is a mental game.

[GOIRISH]

i can understand in a real game of poker how showing could be a strategy, but not on sbr poker. a 7,2 is probably just as deadly as a,k. i dont think any hand is safe on sbr poker

[mynameismud]

imo, only show your cards in very rare situations. 99% never show unless you have too.

[spankie]

tons of reasons to show cards.

its poker.

[ttwarrior1]

Alot want to show a bluff and mix it in with a few i had the best hand , so u don't know if they are bluffing or have a good hand.
I do it because it makes people that say why are you showing mad. If you tell people you don't want to see there hand , they might start showing you more often now.

[k13]

How many times have you seen Ivey show his hand?

[dumbmoney]

I do it sometimes, but not as much as I used to. It can effect your table image, but you have to incorporate that in how you play from then on for it to be successful. Sometimes it comes back to hurt you. There are times when I've shown a bluff so that I have an image of a loose player on the hopes of getting someone to call me down later when I have a good hand, and then being in a situation where I want to bluff it again, but now I'm worried about getting called down because I already showed a bluff. That's why I cut back on it a lot. Sometimes if I'm at a tight table where its hard to get called on a preflop raise, I'll raise with and show junk to make it more likely to get called when I have a hand.

[wtt0315]

i do it 90 percent of the time.. Don't care. I do it live too. People usually tell you not to do it because pros can read your tells from it blah blah blah, but in reality most people are too dumb to catch things like that. Its just habit for me to show now, i guess if you don't like it you can close your eyes. Also you shouldnt complain about people doing it, because if you are not part of the 99.9 percent of the people I just mention, you can actually gain something from it.

[thetrinity]

i honestly almost never show unless its a live game and i bluffed a guy known to tilt. 99.9 percent of hands i dont voluntarily show

[BeerDog99]

i honestly almost never show unless its a live game and i bluffed a guy known to tilt. 99.9 percent of hands i dont voluntarily show

This.

With the rare exception that I sometimes show (online --- if I can uncheck the muck option in time) out of courtesy or respect to let a good guy know what I played.

[The Giant]

I love showing bluffs on SBR poker. Mostly during ring games, hardly ever during a tournament.

I never show live, or when playing online for money. I'm actually much more nitty.

[GOIRISH]

This.

With the rare exception that I sometimes show (online --- if I can uncheck the muck option in time) out of courtesy or respect to let a good guy know what I played.

i do this as well, it just seems some people get out of hand with it on sbr poker.

[LUCKYCHUCK]

never show your cards. keep them wondering if you were bluffing or not.