Showing your poker hole cards is rarely a good idea. Now, you may have a specific moment in a specific hand where you want to alter an opponent's thinking, and you might show your hole cards after the hand but only in rare cases. It can come back to bite you in so many ways. Here's one way I've never seen before. So beware... show at your own peril.
My wife and I play Texas Holdem a lot. Usually tournaments, but some ring games as well. We are not professional players although we've been playing for years and can certainly hold our own. We were playing a No Limit Texas Holdem Tournament in Tunica recently. My wife and I were both entered. A girl at my wife's poker table kept betting my wife out of the pot. She was an extremely aggressive player and had the personality to match. My wife plays pretty tight and solid is not a wild eyed gambler style player, but her style often gets her fairly deep in a lot of tournaments.
When this aggressive player would bet my wife out of a pot, she would almost always flash the guy on her left a quick peek at her hole cards before tossing them. Nobody much noticed this happening at the poker table or said anything. During the break, this guy came over to my wife and told her that most of the hands this aggressive lady player was showing him were junk. My wife was coming to the same conclusion but this confirmed it. To shorten the story, my wife busted her out of the tournament shortly thereafter. This player was "bragging" to the player on her left about how she was so tough and aggressive that she's winning these pots against my wife on bluff's... pushing her around with her poker chips and proud of it... and she just had to show somebody how "clever" she was. Turned out it wasn't that clever. The information she was giving the player on her left about her "boldness" was passed on to my wife during the break and soon led to her tournament demise.
In short, there are rarely good reasons to show your hole cards. to anybody if you don't have to. Here was an example of how it can ruin your game in ways you would probably not even consider.
My wife and I play Texas Holdem a lot. Usually tournaments, but some ring games as well. We are not professional players although we've been playing for years and can certainly hold our own. We were playing a No Limit Texas Holdem Tournament in Tunica recently. My wife and I were both entered. A girl at my wife's poker table kept betting my wife out of the pot. She was an extremely aggressive player and had the personality to match. My wife plays pretty tight and solid is not a wild eyed gambler style player, but her style often gets her fairly deep in a lot of tournaments.
When this aggressive player would bet my wife out of a pot, she would almost always flash the guy on her left a quick peek at her hole cards before tossing them. Nobody much noticed this happening at the poker table or said anything. During the break, this guy came over to my wife and told her that most of the hands this aggressive lady player was showing him were junk. My wife was coming to the same conclusion but this confirmed it. To shorten the story, my wife busted her out of the tournament shortly thereafter. This player was "bragging" to the player on her left about how she was so tough and aggressive that she's winning these pots against my wife on bluff's... pushing her around with her poker chips and proud of it... and she just had to show somebody how "clever" she was. Turned out it wasn't that clever. The information she was giving the player on her left about her "boldness" was passed on to my wife during the break and soon led to her tournament demise.
In short, there are rarely good reasons to show your hole cards. to anybody if you don't have to. Here was an example of how it can ruin your game in ways you would probably not even consider.
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