Quit showing your cards when you fold in a multi-way pot!

[Ray Zee]

most times someone shows their cards it helps you.
perhaps you are hated in the game and play too tight and people are trying to not give you action.

OMG, What sort of answer is that from a respected author? [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

As to whether this is usually helpful or harmful to good players might be an interesting if academic discussion.

Overall there can be no doubt that having people break such basic rules just cannot be good for poker, period!

But what would I know, I'm just a newbie and I have not even read any of Ray's books yet. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

perhaps in this particular situation it happened to be a bad thing. But extra information (available to everyone) helps or hurts all equally over the long run; a good player can usually make better use of the information than others and that means a little extra edge.

what is good for poker is that the losing players have a good time and are willing to come back. Don't be too nitty in enforcing the rules, this may hurt your game in the future.