Is this considered "rude"?

[fluxrad]

Is it considered rude or bad form to announce your hand prior to betting?

I was playing at paradise and had announced my hand on the flop and played it. A few hands later I announced pre-flop, "I have AA" when I actually had 79o. After some aggressive betting I won the hand on the river when the guy laid it down, but my question is...is it considered bad form to do this?

If so, how bad on the scale of poker faux pas?

[fluxrad]

ok. i'm just going to take everyone's silence to mean: i'm a douchebag :-(

[SoftcoreRevolt]

You aren't allowed to talk about the contents of your hand.

[Ace1177]

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ok. i'm just going to take everyone's silence to mean: i'm a douchebag :-(

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bingo!!

[manpower]

Generally in live play, one does not mention specific hands, and if he wants to talk smack, he keeps it to, 'I have a good hand', 'I think I have you beat', etc...

Online the rules obvioulsy loosen up, but I adhere to live game rules myself.

[pryor15]

the farthest i would go is to say something like "that's the last time i fold aces" when the flop goes AAK or something like that on a hand i'm not in. i can't imagine anyone takes that seriously.

seriously, though, i know people who will "think outloud" about their hand if they have to call an all-in and they're last to act. i've never had a problem with that, but anything beyond it is bad form, IMO

[Onaflag]

If you are so bored that you have to engage in meaningless chat, then I would say you are not making full use of your time studying the table. If you are that easily distracted, open up a second table and concentrate on the poker happening in front of you. If none of this applies, then you need to A) grow up, or B) play B&M where this nonsense happens every hand (in g00t games anyway.)

Onaflag...........

[BritNewbie]

I don't regard it as rude, exactly. If I don't want to listen to what you're saying, I can always turn off chat.

Related to what you were saying ... I was playing at PokerStars a few days ago and I'd only just sat down when the guy sitting 'next' to me, announced 'AA - watch me get sucked out.' As it turned out, he DID have AA, and he didn't get sucked out. After dragging the pot, he said, "I always lose with AA'. I said something encouraging, like, "Yeah, me too." Then he said, "I always announce it." Twenty minutes later he said, "4 please," which I took to mean he was holding pocket 4's. I was holding AA and had just raised. The flop came 4 - 4 - something. He said, "WOW!" and I folded. He got some action from two others, but eventually won the pot, having flopped quads. Who needs GameTime?

(The pot he won could have been so much bigger. I had AA, and the two who carried on - I can only assume they either had their chat turned off, or didn't believe him - had KK and QQ. Between us, we could have built quite a pot.)

[MarkL444]

he didnt fold because he thought you had AA. probably missed a draw. if anything when you say you have AA people are gonna want to see it.

[siccjay]

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ok. i'm just going to take everyone's silence to mean: i'm a douchebag :-(

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yea but your avatar is cool

[Cleveland Guy]

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You aren't allowed to talk about the contents of your hand.

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If you are the one in the hand - you pretty much hand. Not cosidered good etiqquite, but that rule is more for when you fold.

[meow_meow]

It's against the rules, plain and simple

[pshabi]

Rules?

I was playing live last week and this clown was first to act on the turn. He had raised PF, bet out the flop and had like 5 callers. Before he bets the turn, he says, "I don't wanna lose with these so I'm just gonna play with them up" and he turns over AA. He bets, everyone folds, hand over.



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Generally in live play, one does not mention specific hands, and if he wants to talk smack, he keeps it to, 'I have a good hand', 'I think I have you beat', etc...

Online the rules obvioulsy loosen up, but I adhere to live game rules myself.

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[otnemem]

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You aren't allowed to talk about the contents of your hand.

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This isn't true. The "rules" change a lot when we're talking about ring games versus tournaments. If you fold your hand, you shouldn't discuss the content of your hand as it may alter someone's decision who's still in the hand. But if you're head's up with someone, you can say whatever you want about your hand, or what you think his hand is.

[Bluffoon]

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Is it considered rude or bad form to announce your hand prior to betting?

I was playing at paradise and had announced my hand on the flop and played it. A few hands later I announced pre-flop, "I have AA" when I actually had 79o. After some aggressive betting I won the hand on the river when the guy laid it down, but my question is...is it considered bad form to do this?

If so, how bad on the scale of poker faux pas?

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I laugh at people who try to use tricks and angles at the poker table. It is usually ridiculously transparent and the only person they are fooling is themselves because they think they are brilliant. To me it indicates someone who is either lacking confidence in their poker skills or knows that their skills are poor and is trying deperately to compensate. In short they are generally fish and losers and I will play with them anytime.

[sfer]

It's against the rules in most tournaments but in every cardroom I've played it is NOT against the rules for a cash game.

[canis582]

Sometimes players at BM casinos will say 'I have dolly parton' when they have 95 or something like that.

[Dov]

Well said.