One play I like to make (that only works in a B&M setting) is flashing your cards to your neighbor immediately after executing a successful bluff. Invariably your opponent will triumphantly point out the "show one show all rule" and ask to see your hand. Reluctantly turn over your bluff and then watch him call you down the rest of the night with inferior hands.
This play works very well against, as Sklansky says, players who like to realize things at the table, but don't realize that you realize every piece of information you're giving them.
However, this play is of dubious value at the limits at which you're playing because few players at that limit think beyond the first level. Just playing solid cards will get you the money in the games you're playing at the moment.
FWIW, I never show any good laydown I make. Nothing is harder to play against than an entire table betting into you whenever you're in a pot. Whereas showing a bluff tends to make people wary of you (he could have anything!), showing a "good laydown" labels you as a rock, and not only will people constantly try to take pots away from you, you'll never get paid off anytime you hit a hand either.
Hope that helps,
EricStatistics: Posted by Gishaclaus — Mon Jan 03, 2005 7:45 pm
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