Warrior1961 said:
Hi everyone.
Do you usually show the cards before returning them to the deck? I have read that sometimes it can be a good strategy to put rivals on tilt ...
Leave your comment here with the reasons why you do it (or not).
I do not usually do it because for me it is free information for others ....
Also, regarding the first sentence, it seems disrespectful to others, but hey, don't forget that you are reading a rookie's opinion.
Thank you very much for your attention.
Best regards from Buenos Aires.
Thanks for the post, I think this is an interesting question and I'm sure there are multiple answers.
Personally I almost never show, but there is one exception I'll make and it happened in a home game just the other day. I'd won a few pots in a short space of time and the guys were saying, "he's just
bluffing every hand!", some I had, some I hadn't...anyway...few
hands later, I picked up 88, I 3-bet the opening raiser and they called. I hit my set on the flop he bet, I raised. Turn was a brick. He checked and I bet just over the pot, which put him all in. Everyone was saying I was at it again. He folded and I showed my set.
Now, some people would say, I might have done him a favour, by showing him he made the right fold, but to me, that is more than compensated by showing the WHOLE TABLE, that their perception of me was off.
They never said I was bluffing again that night, even though I bluffed maybe half a dozen other hands.
