Showing Cards?

[Roller]

Rule are Rules.
All depends on where you are playing.
When in doubt.
Ask before you Flip up one or both of your cards.

This can work to your advantage by watching the other players expression as they see your cards.

Any and All information can be a plus when playing Holdem


Good Luck


Everything in moderation.

 

[CAPT. ZIGZAG]

This can work to your advantage by watching the other players expression as they see your cards.

Any and All information can be a plus when playing Holdem

Absolutely. The other night I was in a pot deep with a weak A, with one A on the board. On the river the villain pushed.

Seemed like a whiff move but I wanted a little more info.

I turned over my A and he immediately looked at the board for an A.

If he had an A, there would have been no need to look. I called and won.

Oh yeah, I was right. He whiffed.


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[peacebrother]

Tournament: show the hand to get a reaction and you will get 1 round penalty and have to walk away from the table.
Cash: \/
angel shooting = trying to cheat

 

[jordanbillie]

Unless there's some funky house rule in place, the button's hand will not be dead. And it wasn't his action that "forced" the small blind to reveal his hand anyway: it was the small blind's stupidity that did that.

People get really stuck on this dead hand thing. About the only way that ever happens is if 1: the player tosses their cards into the muck or 2: the player doesn't protect their hand by putting a chip or something on top of it and the dealer mucks it by mistake.

Don't confuse "subject to penalty after the hand" with a dead hand, because they're very different.

I have had the floor rule the hand dead because of exposing it HU on the river before any action has occurred. Don't confuse the fact that different house rules do exist in different casinos around the world. Where I play in canada, they allow you to show your cards once heads up, but where I work, we don't. The rule is mainly to protect the other players that were in the pot before, because showing cards is considered a form of collusion. This is why it is not allowed.

 

[jrinthelc]

I played in a live tournament once and turned my cards over trying to get a read on the played who was left in the hand. My hand was called dead by the tournament director and mucked.

 

[bredstik]

Interesting. I would have taken the initial flip up to mean a call. Have no problem with that if that's what he did.

Now if he was showing just to get a reaction to DECIDE whether or not to call, I'm not a big fan of that. That's probably a technicality that certain casinos migth have a rule against. I can definitely see how that could cause some differences of opinion...

 

[HipHopStoner]

I've seen it happen before and if you flip your cards over by accident or not they must remain as they lay.

It doesn't constitute a fold or call, it just means you messed up.

 

[Roller]

Always ask when you sit down and again before you make the Flip.
Know the Rules.
They are different from casino to casino.

If they allow it, use it to your advantage.

Good Luck

 

[KAR1982]

I seen that happen before too and always assumed it meant an automatic call. It's nice to know that it really isnt suppose to be done, if what I am reading is correct.

Great question sport.

 

[OzExorcist]

I have had the floor rule the hand dead because of exposing it HU on the river before any action has occurred. Don't confuse the fact that different house rules do exist in different casinos around the world.

Well yeah, like I said - unless there's some funky house rule in place. Sounds like there's more than a few places with some awful, awful ideas about what they ought to do in this situation.

It's my understanding that most casinos around the world (and certainly most of the major tournaments) use the TDA rules that I cited above.