What's a good response when someone asks you what cards you had?

[stinkysam]

I usually tell them that I got dealt the rule card and figured it was worth somthin. Then if they keep after me, I'll just tell them to go [censored] themselves

[prayformojo]

"The winning hand."

What can I say, I'm a sucker for ambiguity. Half the players I say this to assume I mean the nuts, the other half click that I'm messing with them.

I sometimes use "pocket deuces" as well, but only when deuces wouldn't have played, like a double paired board.

[KenProspero]

I view this as an opportunity. Since I feel no obligation to be truthful, the question is: "What do I want my table image to be?"

For example, if I've been playing very tight, and someone folded to my monster hand, I may say "Bottom Pair", or it was a bluff.

Do I want to enhance my image as a tight player -- in that case, I'm sure I had a set at least.

In some cases, if I really had the hand I would want to claim anyway, I'll even just flip them over.

Another advantage I see to all of this is that if someone asks you what your cards are, you almost have a free shot to ask them what they had at some point in the future. If I can get some (admittedly suspect) information from telling a lie, that's great.

[belloc]

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Good game, keep it friendly. Tell him what you think he wants to hear. In this case, something like J-T. You can even add that you probably made a mistake raising.

Etiquette does not require that you tell him what you had; he was being discourteous asking and insiting that you tell him. But when I'm in a game where a lot of the other players play worse than I do, I try to keep the game as pleasant for the other players as possible. Which is a good policy anyway.

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This is what I do, and why I do it.

[Percula]

Something to keep in mind... A happy table is almost always +EV, but a table that is pissy or a couple of guys PO'ed at you can sometimes be +EV too.

If the guy is PO'ed at you, there is a very good chance he is going to enter any pot your are in with any two trying to get the better of you, especially if you raised it. Use this to your advantage.

I generally play in a big bet game and have taken to doing this if someone is really up in arms about seeing cards... "OK you can see one card for half of the last bet, both for the full bet" sometimes I add "pick one, it really doesnt matter they are both the same". To my shock a few people have paid the half bet. [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img] LOL

Some of my favorite lines...

"If I told you, you wouldnt like it"
"Same as you, I just bet it is all"
"Hell if I know I didnt look at them. Dealer do you remember?"
"A pair of Kems"
"A bet you couldnt call"
"Its 3/6 (4/8, 6/12)... so any two will do"
"It maybe low limit, but I still play my best"

[M2d]

three options:
Pocket Aces
Whatever the second nuts were (you have to figure it out and say a hand, not just "second nuts")
whatever he thinks you had (if he guesses, then "yeah, that was it")

whichever option you choose, stick with it the whole session.

[Bill Bixby]

Lie

[Yarney]

One that I use when the table is already in a good mood is "Trust me, if you had me beat you would have called."

It doesn't necessarilly mean that you have the nuts, but that you did have a pretty good hand that was certainly worth a bet.

-Yarney

[Hal 2000]

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One that I use when the table is already in a good mood is "Trust me, if you had me beat you would have called."



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One of my favorites too

[Rick Diesel]

I did not read through the other responses, but regardless of what the board shows, the answer is always pocket jacks, even if there are three jacks on board.