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Looking at your cards in live poker...
Sparked by a recent conversation...
When you play live at an SPT or similar, how do you look at your cards?
- Do you look at both the same time or one at a time?
- Do you wait for your turn or look as soon as you get them?
- Do you look at them horizontally or vertically?
- How much do you 'cover' your cards when reading them?
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- After cards are dealt, put cards one on top of other and position them infront of me horizontally.
-Wait until it's my turn to act, then turn the cards 90 degrees, shield with my left hand and lift the left hand corner with my right hand.
- Once I've looked at the cards, turn them back 90 degrees and position them horizontally exactly as before, then take my hands away from the cards and sit back before making any further action.
I do this exactly the same regardless of whether I intend to enter the pot or fold.
- Do you wait for your turn or look as soon as you get them? - As soon as someone shouts at me that it is my turn, I look.
- Do you look at them horizontally or vertically? - I am usually horizontal.
- How much do you 'cover' your cards when reading them? - Sometimes my head does fall onto them which covers them. There are also times I cover my cards with dribble.
Changed it.
...and there is also the squeal when you see AA.
Depends. I'm a bit cack-handed.
- Do you wait for your turn or look as soon as you get them?
I used to wait my turn but now I just look straight away. Waiting your turn just slows the game down. If everyone did it you might see 10 flops an hour.
- Do you look at them horizontally or vertically?
See answer to first question.
- How much do you 'cover' your cards when reading them?
I don't know. A bit.
In Response to Re: Lokking at your cards in live poker...:
i do start off in a tourney doing the same thing and wait to look until the acton is on me, but if im having a few pints find myself looking before acton gets to me lol
well only 1 or 2 like lol playing? donnating? not much diffrence lol
I just hold them to my chest and then pull them up to my face and then hold them tightly against my chest.
Sometimes I may just pick them up and glare at them at arms length.
Failing that I'll wait untill someone yells at me that it's my turn then procced to slow the game down.
Then I'll spend another 10 minutes, messing about with my chips and then FOLD!
I just wait for the 70x62 pixels to show me what I've been dealt.
Then I raise-4bet-6bet it, with a big fck-off grin on my face.
Doesn't everyone??
Sometimes I cover up the river if I want a real sweat, trying to bink/fade flushes. Expert move, only for the pros tho (Y)