Don't Show Your Poker Hands if You Don't Have To

Poker playing takes some strategy and from time to time I decide that strategy isn’t working and I make a change.  

For example, I have decided I am never going to show my cards again when I don’t have to.  For some reason I keep thinking this is a great poker strategy.

But it seems like it never works out for me.  I decided a long time ago that showing big hands never helps you.

One poker game I got AA, AK, KK, AQ in a row and showed them all, then I tried to bluff after that and everyone called me.

I guess the assumption is that in poker no body can keep getting great hands like that.

On the other hand, if you show 27 after winning a pot.  The only way it will work is if the other player is smart enough to realize what you have done…. And remember it.  But not so smart that it will not affect their game.

So you need a poker player that is new but not so new that they can’t keep track of what you’re doing.  I have decided that there are not that many people like that out there.

I have been playing poker for about a year now and if someone bluffs me out of a hand and then shows me their cards it does have a slight effect on me.

But that’s why I like to play 3 or 4 tables at a time, because 95% of the time I don’t even look at what happens after I play my hand.

Seldom do I look back on a hand that I am in and wait to see if they guy will show me his cards.  I am on to another table trying to figure out what I am going to do with my next hand.

It’s a lot less emotional this way and I tend to play a better poker game too.