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#1
04-01-2005, 02:51 AM
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Is this considered \"rude\"?
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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#3
04-01-2005, 03:19 AM
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Re: Is this considered \"rude\"?
You aren't allowed to talk about the contents of your hand.
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#5
04-01-2005, 03:28 AM
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Re: Is this considered \"rude\"?
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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#6
04-01-2005, 04:22 AM
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Re: Is this considered \"rude\"?
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
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#7
04-01-2005, 05:03 AM
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Re: Is this considered \"rude\"?
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...........
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#8
04-01-2005, 05:22 AM
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Re: Is this considered \"rude\"?
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.)
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