Asking to see a players hand, is it bad form??

[Karabiner]

It's not like many live players have much etiquette or knowledge of the showdown rules.

Well yes exactly.

Too many showdowns turn into some kind of game of "chicken" where noone wants to show.

Reluctantly agreeing with seniorjuniorsenior really.

[cambridgealex]

Tal = best poster on blonde atm

[parker]

Had this same quistion come up on my table at the gps on friday and the table was split over it, i missed the hand my self as i was somewere else at the time but come back to hear it all kicking off.

In the end most people were saying its not bad form to ask if you was in the hand but defo a no no if not in the hand.

If it was up to me and i would ask even if i didt want to know but i would only do it if it would let me get inside my opps head and let me play with him mind (if you get me).

you asked to see my hand when you had the nuts....

Yer and .......

If you call someone on the river and they say "you're good" or words to that effect, I think it's the height of bad etiquette to ask to see that persons hand. Show your hand, take the pot and move on.

[smashedagain]

Could count the times I've done it on one hand (no jokes, thanks!) in ten years of live poker and it was always needle purposes.

Usually it's when you have an alpha male at the table and they are being a penis so big that there are specialist, niche websites dedicated to them. Part of it is to see what they are calling with, granted but that's less than half of it.

Just a case of cutting them down a bit.

BTW if I am at your table and do it to you, this is now going to be reeeeeaaaaaaallly awkward lol

Lol. Love your work. I am a big fan.  I generally hendonmob em and pass the phone round the table then ask em if they are so good should they not have more than one £15 cash.  But then again I am a confirmed douche

[Tal]

Lol thanks, Alex. Too kind!

Jason, I did catch you doing that at dusk once when u were to my right. Really amused me when you said "That guy telling everyone how to play. He's only got one cash and that was in January"

I then suggested you look at mine. One cash. January.

[cambridgealex]

Don't think Jason is so billy bigtime with his hendon mob these days

[titaniumbean]

Guys it's HerbertMob, not Hendon mob. god all you and you're typos.


eta to apostrophe tilt

[GreekStein]

At one of the DTD monte carlo's a fellow blonde bet the river with a pair in his hand that was like 4th pair and got hero'd by a guy holding a pocket pair one above. Blonde says, 'good call - you must win' or words to that effect. Guy turns over his 66 and blonde says 'oops so sorry' and snap turns his 77.
 
Since then, I decided I would always wait when someone says good call. You either show your hand or I see it hit the muck before I turn mine.

[smashedagain]

Don't think Jason is so billy bigtime with his hendon mob these days

Word.

I think I do it every comp Tal

[titaniumbean]

At one of the DTD monte carlo's a fellow blonde bet the river with a pair in his hand that was like 4th pair and got hero'd by a guy holding a pocket pair one above. Blonde says, 'good call - you must win' or words to that effect. Guy turns over his 66 and blonde says 'oops so sorry' and snap turns his 77.
 
Since then, I decided I would always wait when someone says good call. You either show your hand or I see it hit the muck before I turn mine.

I had this in the WSOP, the gentleman just had TOP PAIR. fking twats.

Kick in the nuts/ovaries should be introduced as a punishment imo.

[cambridgealex]

At one of the DTD monte carlo's a fellow blonde bet the river with a pair in his hand that was like 4th pair and got hero'd by a guy holding a pocket pair one above. Blonde says, 'good call - you must win' or words to that effect. Guy turns over his 66 and blonde says 'oops so sorry' and snap turns his 77.
 
Since then, I decided I would always wait when someone says good call. You either show your hand or I see it hit the muck before I turn mine.

Don't think that's the lesson I'd learn from that.  There's no harm done in that situation, no malice or needling intended. Just one of those things that happens pretty rarely, not worth being a douche cos  99% of the time that "good call" means your hand is good.

[SuuPRlim]

if someone wants to see my hand then abso fine I'll just show them it cos 99% of the time if someone is asking then they aren't going to be advanced enough to properly process the information they'll get.

If anything me knowing that they have this info and having a pretty good idea they'll mis-use it is more of a disadvantage to them than an advantage so if they wanna do that to themselves they are more than welcome.

[titaniumbean]

At one of the DTD monte carlo's a fellow blonde bet the river with a pair in his hand that was like 4th pair and got hero'd by a guy holding a pocket pair one above. Blonde says, 'good call - you must win' or words to that effect. Guy turns over his 66 and blonde says 'oops so sorry' and snap turns his 77.
 
Since then, I decided I would always wait when someone says good call. You either show your hand or I see it hit the muck before I turn mine.

Don't think that's the lesson I'd learn from that.  There's no harm done in that situation, no malice or needling intended. Just one of those things that happens pretty rarely, not worth being a douche cos  99% of the time that "good call" means your hand is good.

41.733665% of statistical figures are made up.


Would bet my net that the number is closer to 60%, they just have no clue.

So often they randomly spaz lead the river you call and they then realise that their hand plays awfully vs your range to call so they say 'good call'. But obv you called because they were bluffing and cant beat the PAIR they hold.


morons.

[GreekStein]

At one of the DTD monte carlo's a fellow blonde bet the river with a pair in his hand that was like 4th pair and got hero'd by a guy holding a pocket pair one above. Blonde says, 'good call - you must win' or words to that effect. Guy turns over his 66 and blonde says 'oops so sorry' and snap turns his 77.
 
Since then, I decided I would always wait when someone says good call. You either show your hand or I see it hit the muck before I turn mine.

Don't think that's the lesson I'd learn from that.  There's no harm done in that situation, no malice or needling intended. Just one of those things that happens pretty rarely, not worth being a douche cos  99% of the time that "good call" means your hand is good.

41.733665% of statistical figures are made up.


Would bet my net that the number is closer to 60%, they just have no clue.

So often they randomly spaz lead the river you call and they then realise that their hand plays awfully vs your range to call so they say 'good call'. But obv you called because they were bluffing and cant beat the PAIR they hold.


morons.

wp lads. both giving %'s that gotta be so far off what it actually is.

[titaniumbean]

At one of the DTD monte carlo's a fellow blonde bet the river with a pair in his hand that was like 4th pair and got hero'd by a guy holding a pocket pair one above. Blonde says, 'good call - you must win' or words to that effect. Guy turns over his 66 and blonde says 'oops so sorry' and snap turns his 77.
 
Since then, I decided I would always wait when someone says good call. You either show your hand or I see it hit the muck before I turn mine.

Don't think that's the lesson I'd learn from that.  There's no harm done in that situation, no malice or needling intended. Just one of those things that happens pretty rarely, not worth being a douche cos  99% of the time that "good call" means your hand is good.

41.733665% of statistical figures are made up.


Would bet my net that the number is closer to 60%, they just have no clue.

So often they randomly spaz lead the river you call and they then realise that their hand plays awfully vs your range to call so they say 'good call'. But obv you called because they were bluffing and cant beat the PAIR they hold.


morons.

wp lads. both giving %'s that gotta be so far off what it actually is.

TY

reread first line of ma post

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