How often do you go to showdown?

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Why and how often are you trying to get to showdown?
 
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when I'm nuts I go to show down easily with too much pleasure!
 
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Open the cards if you are sure of the power of your hand. Or if you are not sure about it. Sometimes it can be a bank in 2 BB - both players made minimum bets and just reached the autopsy without getting into the board and wanting to bluff.

The question of opening cards is not important at all. It's just a game moment, nothing more.
 
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I'll go to showdown with a decent pocket pair, or if I've hit a strong pair-kicker combo with decent showdown value.

And as hyperion said previously, when I have the nuts I'll do everything I can to get to showdown while trying to extract value...

Open the cards if you are sure of the power of your hand. Or if you are not sure about it. Sometimes it can be a bank in 2 BB - both players made minimum bets and just reached the autopsy without getting into the board and wanting to bluff.

The question of opening cards is not important at all. It's just a game moment, nothing more.

I barely understood a word of that :D
I really need to study poker lingo because posts like this baffle me :eek:
 
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As a legitimate monkey, several times hahahaha
 
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Why and how often are you trying to get to showdown?

Usually I don't want to go to showdown unless I have a really good hand.


The reason is I always get beat by my opponent.
 
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Winning after showdown will get much more money if several players have good hands.
 
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I like to do showdown - when I'm sure that the opponent has a bluff, and I have a combination
 
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To win 99% of the time, other 1% sometimes for information if it isn't costing too much (especially if a cash game where it can help to adjust better to a certain player).

Based on small sample of my getting back in the game recently, about 4k hands accross 3 different limits so very small sample lol, think im 57% to showdown (or it might have been wsd) .... not really played enough to do much analyzing of my stats yet.

But basically main purpose of why you want to go to showdown is to win, and how often would be as often as you expect to win. There is essentially a baseline range of going to showdown for winning players, but can't say those stats are anything fresh in my head these days ..... got me a lot of review and study (refresh + new) to do if I hope to get back into poker as I would like :D
 
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20-25% of the time is close to optimal. But as Braveslice has pointed out on a similar Post, this number depends on WHO you are up against. It might be optimal to showdown more often against opponents who are taking total trash to the river. But against regs this needs to be tightened up as they will rarely have pure air.
 
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I’m not really big at going to a showdown. But if it does happen it’s normally if my lot is bigger then the person I’m going against.
 
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I play pretty aggressive so I don’t showdown often. I’m happy to take the smaller pot early on in the hand whether I have the cards or not.
 
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According to Pokertracker I've gone to showdown 40% of the time (when I saw a flop) over many thousands of hands. I go to showdown when I have a very strong hand and the nuts, trying to get more chips as I go.
 
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