Should I have turned my hand face up?
Had a really frustrating morning playing 3/6 at my local B&M today. Flopped a straight flush and won a nice pot after c/c'ing the flop, c/r'ing the turn, and betting out on the river with two callers the whole way... missed out on the $800 Monte Carlo bonus by 2 minutes, as someone else in the joint hit one first.
The crusher was the folling nightmarish hand: It's a kill pot and I'm in MP and raise J [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]9 [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], it gets reraised and capped four ways.. since I had two bets in I called.
Flop comes 8 [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]J [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]J [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]. I bet out, one caller, two folds.
The turn is the A [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] I bet out $6 and the caller calls and goes all-in for his last $1.
River comes a blank, and much to my dismay the caller is holding AA, hitting his two-outer to beat me.
Here's my question: I realize that him running out of chips was both lucky (I could have lost more) and unlucky (he might have been less inclined to fish for a two-outer... although it's tough to fold AA.) This may sound crazy, but it occurred to me that I might have turned my hand face-up after the flop or before the turn in the hopes that he'd surrender his two-outer, while I rake in $96.
Anyone ever done that or seen it done? I'm sure this is something to be tried only very rarely, and I'm not even sure you can do it, but this seems like the perfect time to try something like that. Any thoughts?
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