Basically if your any good at poker you should know what to do when you bet. bet/call, bet/fold etc etc
On the whole saving face thing. People who tank for a couple of minutes to "save face", eg they raise then get shoved on. Tanking like this doesn't save face. It just shows you made a bet without knowing what you were going to do afterwards. In other words, it makes you look bad.
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I'm agreeing with you that you should know what you're doing before it's your turn in a lot of cases. eg, folds to button who raises. short stack big blind goes all in and button then tanks for 2 minutes before folding his T2o thinking he's saving face by having a tough decision and making a big laydown. They don't achieve this, they just look bad.
ah ok, thought you had read half my post. agreed then. they really do piss me off, and they think they are sweating you when really they are just "saving face"
I almost agree, I agree it almost never looks like they've got to think
really hard about the
tough decision to fold.
But I think the majority of time it doesn't look like they made a bet without thinking what they were going to do afterwards - I think nearly all the time it looks like they're dwelling up because they think that dwelling up before folding will save them face.
Not that it makes a difference as it still ends up with the other players thinking approximately the same thing about the player.
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