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Originally Posted by Kelvis
Or people can just stop saying that hoping to see someones hand without showing theirs. If it is little effort to fastroll then it is equally little effort for someone to instantly muck his hand because he was bluffing. The one saying "you're good" is causing the possible delay, not the other way around.
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Originally Posted by Didace
But I can only control me.
Exactly.
I never say "you're good." I think it's really ****ing stupid. But I can't stop people from doing it to me.
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Originally Posted by Kelvis
But at least we can all discourage it. If I don't do it then my neighbor won't expect to be able to not show and see cards.
Only if you think the importance of discouraging it outweighs the cost of discouraging it.
Your crusade against this will cost fewer hands per hour. You will admit that your hand contains valuable information. You will give up any pretense of being a fun-loving gambler.
At small stakes, where winrates are high, opponents are unsophisticated, and player pools are large enough that few will accumulate a good distribution of your range, the costs heavily outweigh the benefits.
If I ever end up playing HU with ten million dollars in cash on the table, I swear I will be the worst behaved player ever - I'm going to angleshoot the **** out of my opponent and slowroll and do everything in my power to tilt him or her and increase my chances of winning from 50% to 51% (or more likely 30% to 31%). Because the value of being an unbridled jerk is of greater EV than what I expect to win in a lifetime of small stakes cash games. And I will gladly walk away (win or lose) from the entire game of poker and never show my face in a casino again should I be mocked as the biggest ****bag ******* ever.
But you know what? At a 2/5- NL table or 40/80- LHE table, I'm the lucky ass donk who shows up for a bit and splashes some chips around randomly, and can afford it because of the cushy job that my rich daddy set me up with. Oh you tried to bluff me? Ha, ha, I called you with king high, that's fun. I tried to bluff you? Busted! Ha, ha, all in good fun. We're all having fun.