show your win cards or show your bluff?

To OP, I run across this now and again. Make a note that he shows a lot of bluffs, it is a sign of an inexperienced or immature player. This info can come in handy if you encounter him again.

I may show - stress MAY - if the situation calls, as one example. if I have been stealing a lot, and get 2-3 monsters in a row, and people are folding to my bets, I may show to keep some stealing credibility, but 999 out of 1000 I wont.

If I have been stealing and get 2-3 good hands after, I may try to get a caller to go to showdown by giving decent pot odds on my bet (only if I think I am ahead), so even if I read wrong and lose, my stealing cred stays high.

In the game of poker Information is power and your opponent giving you free information by showing you his hand, is pretty much giving you the knowledge and power to defeat him even easier in the upcoming rounds. Dont let him get to you he is just trying to get you off your game. Tighten up and wait for a monster hand then trap him.

Bah I never show them, with a respectable rival I sometimes might saywhat I had.

But that's in extremely rare cases...Giving out such information could leadto something not good, like someone else getting a tip about your hand range

I rarely show my cards to the table especially if I have bluffed. I know lots of guys do and there is nothing wrong with it but I prefer to leave people guessing.

IcyBlueAce said:

Auto-muck FTW.

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+1

I think everybody shows now and then. I will if I like the hand or it is such a monster I can't resist.

Had 2 Royals earlier this year and had to show them.

i like to use the rabbit cam to make people think they would of caught cards if they stayed in

mastar147 said:

i show only when i got awesome hand whats awesome 4 of a kind royal

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I have to show a royal!

I guess showing a bluff could help in some way. If you're opponent sees the bluff he might think you're gonna be bluffing, and he probably won't know when you're not bluffing having a real hand.

Also this can demoralize your opponents very well, any thoughts?

Online? I only show my hands at showdown. Live? I show my hole cards any time I feel it will benefit me to do so. Table says my image is crap? Show a set as I rake in a pot.

You're taking control of the hand and a scare card hit? Show my Aces and see what your reaction is. (For the record the only way I ever folded Aces when I was behind - and drawing dead) was by doing this (and he showed his made flush).

You just folded a pot you were in $120 deep to me because the retarded fourth spade fell? Yea, you get to see my 3h5h.

I made a hero call in a several hundred dollar pot and the villain mucks before he sees my hand? Guess what table, I'm going to show you my pocket fours and you're going to know you can't bluff me with garbage.

So basically I show occaisonally (Out of the thousand or so live hands I've played this year, I've shown maybe four) to manipulate my table image.

But if I don't think it's going to have a positive effect on me or my session, I don't show.

Otherwise, you can see'em at showdown should we both get that far.