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www.poker.ladbrokes.com - As you can imagine, with most tournaments, it is not permitted for players to show their cards whilst a hand is still in progress. The reason for this is that other players still involved in the hand can benefit from this extra information. Of course if you and an opposing player are the only players remaining in the pot, then you can reveal your hand once the action has concluded.

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It is not only in order to be kind that players expose their cards afterwards, there is a far more tactical reason behind it than that. Psychologically, if you think someone is getting annoyed, and their play may be suffering as a result, showing a bluff to them might be enough to push them further on tilt. This seems cruel in a way, but it’s all part of the game, because if your opponent can’t play their best poker the moment things start going wrong for them, then that is a weakness in their game to be exploited.
Another point to be made is that when players see you have bluffed them off a pot, they usually expect you to do the same thing again, so next time, you will theoretically be sitting with a hand, when they decide to call.

I would say that sometimes you can show a hand through sympathy, if you play with friends regularly and someone has made a big decision, you can usually tell that they’re itching to know if they made the right choice. In a serious game there is perhaps benefit to be had from not showing, but amongst friends I do not mind putting an opponents mind at ease.