You Know Your Opponent Never Bluffs

[luckyme]

In all life situations there are the rules/laws and there are social expectations/customs. Part of what you're reading in this thread is the melding of those in a poker setting.

Amirillo Slim wrote about a pot being taken from him in England because he spoke during the hand he was in. Trying to talk somebody in or out of a call would be grounds for lynching. So, if your asking a brit ( in those days) you'd expect a different answer from the one a Texan would give. Neither is right/wrong.

I've played in clubs where you didn't leave your chips to go to the bathroom without a friend to watch over them. do you think I had a valid expectation that somebody wouldn't use access to my poker notes against me, or take advantage if I showed them my cards?

I was raised with cards in my crib, my family played games, games and games. We played strictly by the rules and honestly ( no cheating type maneuvers) but if we said in a hi-lo pot "sure you can call, it's good for the both of us" it probably meant "It'll make me a winner and give you a nice clear spot to deal from". No Westminster burial for my granny, I 'spose.

Knowing somebodies playing style from whether they are winning or losing, whether you were in the game from the start or your friend nudged you when you got there and said " He's down 100 quid tonight" is not elicit knowledge in our games. If my friend said of a stranger ( to me) "I've played 1000 hours with him and he has never bluffed" likewise. It's not information that I gathered by observation but it's information he has no right to think I don't have.

If somebody loose gambler bets the farm and I have KK ( so easy call/raise), they show me AA accidently as I ponder ... at the poker table I fold, in the equivalent bridge situation I call.

Context matters. Poker is not bridge, bridge is not real estate selling or politics, politics is not marriage, ... what you do in one does not mean you short change blind people.

luckyme