What is the general rule for showing just one card?

[ProfessorBen]

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[Showing the card that missed the board] slows the game down.

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I don't know how you figure that. Maybe the woman in question thought she was the next Annie Duke.

I've started doing this mischievously on occasion, but only on occasion. At Foxwoods $1-2 I had J [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] J [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] and the pot, heads-up on the flop, was three baby spades. My aggressive opponent bet into me, I raised, he folded. I showed the spades one and mucked the clubs one, then poured fuel on the speculative conversation that ensued: "I could have had AJs, I could have had JTs, I could have had pocket jacks,..."

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Showing the card that missed the board is showing J [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] in this case, not J [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img].

[AKQJ10]

Yeah, my anecdote wasn't THAT on topic.... [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

My point was just that I was being mischievous, and that showing the card that missed (or in Duke's case, the bottom pair of a two pair) is mischievous. In neither case did we show enough to let the opponent conclude with certainty what kind of hand we really had.

[elena_elphie]

There is a great loophole though. You only have to show the other card if it is "retrievable". So you just muck the second card before you show the first one. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[Yads]

Here in Calgary the general rule is that you don't have to show the other card unless it went to show down and you want to invoke the IWTSTH rule. There was a guy from California in our game who insisted that "in the states" you have to show the other card if you just show one. He insisted that he's played in LA and LV and all over and that's the rule.

[DeadMoneyWalking]

Shouldn't we be encouraging this as a community?

They think they are clever; because they give us information for free.

[Regis]

I wouldn't complain if someone wanted to show a card. I'll take the information. I don't understand why anyone should be opposed to it.