Originally Posted by TRUSTtheDRAWCESS
Although I have a full-time job (and have no desire to ever play professionally), I am winning recreational grinder, who studies and works on his game. I play a mix of live and online, but in recent months it has primarily been live.
I primarily play 2/5, but occasionally 1/2 when I am tired or want to pay more attention to a sporting event while playing. I try to play atleast 1 session per weekend of 6-8 hours.
I am relatively social and chatty, and always try to create a positive atmosphere at the table, because it makes the game more enjoyable, and generally leads to better action from the fish/whales. I also try to have good poker etiquette, particularly toward losing players.
This extends to showdowns, where I try to have good etiquette as much as possible. I avoid playing showdown standoff games, and very frequently show quickly, and first (even when technically I am not first to act at showdown) especially against losing players. I always try to avoid putting losing players in uncomfortable spots at showdown. I try to avoid the appearance of even a slight slowroll. Even against regs I try to be prompt if caught bluffing, and let them know I have air so they can show and I can muck.
However, after a couple hands I played this weekend, I am wondering if my fastrolling can be seen as a dick move.
I wanted to watch The Masters relatively attentively, so I was playing 1/2. The game was pretty good, with a couple bigger action players, one whom I had become pretty friendly talking about golf with.
I had two big hands where I won big pots (for 1/2).
One was a huge cooler against the friendly whale, where I 3b TT in BB vs his BU open. Flop was T62r, I xc'ed $100 otf, then he jammed the offsuit 5 turn.
As always, to avoid slow rolling, I snap called his turn jam and insta showed my TT. He looked super shocked and then turned over 66 a few seconds later.
He was obviously displeased about the cooler, but nonetheless was jovial about it and we continued being friendly and chatting afterwards.
A second, similar hand happened later against a different whale where I turned the nutflush (tbf on a paired board) and check-snapcalled his turn jam and snap showed, beating his QQ with the FD. He had boat outs but I held.
After the second hand, I kinda felt like maybe the speed at which I snapcalled and showed could be perceived as me "shoving the nuts into their face". I am trying to avoid slow rolling but now wondering if the speed of my action can be seen as "haha, you went all-in and instantly got shown the (relative) nuts, get ****ed".
This is not what I am trying to do, but rather just avoiding slow rolling. Would it be better for me to just call and then indicate my hand verbally before turning it over 2-3 seconds later?
FWIW, I don't only do this with the nuts, but any strong hand that is a snapcall.
A while back in my old room I did the same thing otr on a paired board with the nutflush against a mega spewy whale, only to get shown his boat. He did proceed to needle me a bit about my snapcall and show, he was all like "you thought you had got it all and stacked me, huh?" which I didn't mind, but I wonder if in hindsight him needling me is because he thought my snap show was poor etiquette.
Thoughts?