Unethical... Ethics are moral principles; morality is the extent to which an action is right or wrong.
It's obviously wrong to show the bluff in an effort to tilt other players
.* The same goes for rude chat and other 'tilt behavior' (God forbid you make it big and become featured in acticles like
Dan Cates)
Some of us play it the opposite direction...
Every situation is unique and what is ethical will depend on so many factors, but while I understand the general consensus that you should reveal as few cards as possible I think most of you are
highly underestimating the benefit of showing the bluff
if you can pull it off correctly (
and you run good
) Let's take a look at your beautiful example:
Was this move unethical? Depends on your objective... Next hand:
^ This is a quite stellar example of how showing the bluff can work to your advantage, well played good sir, well played!
Given the information available,
Villain also (arguably)
made the correct play here! From his position it was
too obvious (trap) you were trying to steal blinds from a loose table because you were short-stacked.
I could not disagree more, not only did you create a text book example of (dare I say extremely?) advanced play and gain valuable information about the Villain...
The bold above shows that you know you made
all the right moves. You ingeniously exploited all this new-found knowledge to take advantage of a tilted fish! I can assure you there is nothing unethical about taking a tilted players chips if you did not have malicious motives on their emotions. Quite the contrary, it would be unethical to pass this offer up... I would like to commend you
again for seizing
yet another perfect opportunity! :icon_sant
*This is debatable: if your objective is profit, is intentionally tilting a player really the wrong move? :angel: