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Originally Posted by LPL_Mike
The reason is obvious Stu, by turning your cards over you attempt to get a reaction from your opponent..if both players could do this maybe it would be fair...but only one person is in position to try and get a read of a opponent by turning his cards over, does it help i doubt it!, is it fair that one person can do this while the other has to sit there?......
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Oh, come on - is it "fair" that two people have to bet blind every hand when everyone else doesn't? Of course not, but that's how the game works. Poker is 80% about trying to read the other players and gain psychological advantages over them, and 20% (if that) about what cards you've got in your hand. There are 100 other ways to try to influence/psyche out/read another player, and none of them are considered "bad etiquette". If the other guy doesn't want to give away a reaction to seeing your cards, nobody's forcing him to look at them.
People say what they've got all the time, truthfully or otherwise. I just don't see how actually showing your cards is different to that. The way I was brought up, telling the truth is more polite than lying...