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Originally Posted by mycorrhizae
Isn't it pretty obviously useful to know if someone is opening a hand like K3o vs KQs? Or if they had any draws or backdoor draws?
This is the tradeoff:
You get to see the exact cards to understand your opponents range vs. you get to not show when you are bluffing. With the added bonus of speeding up the game.
If you always show your bluffs and never have a hand where you want to not show, then knock yourself out.
But that is at odds with the argument that there is valuable info to get. If that is true then it follows that there is valuable info to hide.
Also consider this:
When you see your opponents cards you now have info on one person. When you are forced to expose your bluff, nine people gain info on you.
For the reasons stated above:
I always immediately flip my cards over when an opponent announces a hand that I beat. If he/she is lying they are always lying in the direction of having a worse hand (i.e., they are trying to maintain complete hiddenness of their cards).
There is one added bonus for showing immediately:
Every now and then a villain does not read their hand correctly and they are about to muck a winning hand without showing. I have seen this happen.
Edit: I should also mention that for the most part the exposure of villain's hand will not extend their range. Either they have a hand that is part of a semi-bluff or they have two overcards to the board when they last bet/called. And even when they have a hand like K3o which widens their expected range, for the most part we already know that this type of hand is in their range because they are that bad. However, there are exceptions. Like its a new player so you just don't know or its a really good player completing in the small blind with a really bad hand which tells you he thinks he can outplay you OOP. But even in these cases I flip immediately. To give the illusion that I could care less about what they have. That the only two cards I care about are my own...
Last edited by Mr Rick; 09-02-2018 at 12:29 PM.