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dave - I think it's partly curiousity about whether you're ahead or not and getting excited when you hit your 2-outer or whatever...and partly just to speed things along so that you know if you're about to win or not and whether you need to try to sneak in a re-buy before you get sat-out.
I'm not the guy that roots out loud for cards after seeing both hands face up, but it does allow for some on-the-fly analysis of your opponents play. To get the same info is several clicks/scrolls to go back through the HH, and it leads to some misclicks when multi-tabling.
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I agree that it COULD make a difference on the fishies having less courage to make some ridiculous all-in's though so I'm not 100% in the camp of "OMG...show the cards already."
Yeah, maybe...but from my personal experiences playing on FTP, the games are very, very fish filled...and no one seems to mind having their hand flipped up. The astute players that know that showing certain hands might lead to having people play differently against them, know that the good players are going to go check the HH anyway. Also...when a fish has a ridiculous hand flipped up, he usually goes bust in that hand and leaves the table anyway. The whales that have add'l buyins could care less. They're there to gamble.
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To that end, I think my idea of having a button to immediately flip over the cards when you're all-in...IF you want to...is the best of both worlds. And makes it even MORE like a cash-game at a real-casino where MOST players actually do flip over their cards because they want to pretend like they're in a tournament or something...but you are not FORCED to flip them like on FT or if you were in a tournamkent.
Many casinos have the policy to turn all cards up in both tourneys and cash games. For them, it is to speed things up at the end of the hand when the time comes to decide who shows first. A button to allow players to show or muck right after the all in is un-realistic. The option is already given at the end of the hand. The other reason people show their hand in the casino is that they hope the other guy will do the same. They want the sweat.
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Checking the tab on the drop-down menu to auto-muck or not auto-muck is kind of silly too.
Just make it a check-box next to the other check-boxes on the table.
Most people have it checked to auto-muck by default because it's too annoying to get asked if you want to show or muck on EVERY single hand
But there are SOME times when I would choose to show my cards at showdown IF it was a readily available option. And calling up the lobby and trying to quickly uncheck the 'auto-muck' option is way too time-consuming when you're multi-tabling.
As I recall, Party had the 'auto-muck' option as a check-box in the lower-left along with the 'auto-post blinds' and stuff like that. That's the best way to do it. Allows me and others to show quickly uncheck it and show their cards if they want to.
Yes. Yes. Yes. This is a no-brainer. A checkbox next to the other boxes, that can easily allow me to show a hand in an appropriate spot would be amazing. It is impossible to go to the options and uncheck the automuck box in time to show in most situations.
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Even better would be a fun option to show one card or another card when mucking or even when folding pre-showdown if it's heads-up or something....as well as after you won the hand due to everyone else folding.
This is a big part of live-poker and a lot of players find this to be kind of fun.
Everyone folds, you get the pot, and show the table a 5c that has nothing to do with the board just to torment your opponents.
Isn't this something that Negreneau does sometimes? If so then just call it the 'Negreneau Option' or something fun.
No. I don't like this one bit...and many cardrooms across the country are no longer allowing this. This is taunting at its worst, and the only reason people do this is to try and tilt their opponent. This is grouped in with the show 1 person, show everyone rule. They now have the show 1 card, show the whole hand rule as well.