why did i bother?

[hi_am_chris]

"I was trying to stay cool to make him muck his hand" At that point roland has shown his hand and is this not a form of angle shooting? Hes beat so he should muck the hand but roland should still show the other card regardless

[deanp27]

people that only show one card deserve to lose - simple

[monkeyman]

Looks like I can rip up my application for that tournament director"s job I was after
 

[Mikeyboy9361]

Looks like I can rip up my application for that tournament director"s job I was after
 

Me too  

[Cyntaf]

It really is one of my pet hates when a player shows only 1 card, or similar won"t turn cards at showdown, even though they took the last action. The cards won"t change their faces if you wait for 2 mins.
It really is a bad habit to turn 1 card over at a time.

# I think it is bad ettiquete
# It just slows down the game
# Gives rise to feeling like you"ve been slow rolled

As Ant said, he"d pulled the player up once, giving him warning. He took no notice and continued to play his way(home rules or such), doing it on the second occasion, is totally disrespectful and i too would be after the pot here.

You Play, oppo say, i call the dough, now YOU show. That"ll be 2 cards please Mr Selfish, "your not seeing my cards how i play, even though you may have paid to see them"  and the game goes on.

2cards ftw or the loss if he"s paid

[WarBwastardo]

In a small buy-in pub level game (assuming that"s what this was) you don"t have to go over board enforcing laws do you?  Especially when as in this case, you weren"t even sure you were correct.  He had "proven" to have the best hand.  You knew you were beat as he"d shown the important card which was the Ace, you can guess his other card was a rag since he didn"t want to show it. 

Just give him the pot and get on with it.  Just explain after the hand that while you want to keep things friendly, technically his hand was dead and ask in the future that he play by the rules.  Trying to claim this pot here was nonsense really in my opinion - like people who can"t wait to announce string raise when some one clumsily makes a bet despite the fact that he hasn"t looked up at anyone and can"t possibly be doing it to gain information.

You just have to let some things go for the sake of keeping the game moving and sociable.  

[antthecat]

i understand your point but i did ask for both cards to be shown before, i only asked again on the second go as to see his kicker(to gain rightful info) but as he mucked it and i had two cards that were live, i had to make a point.

btw the game was at the pub but it was a private tourney as he shut the pub as the game got started and the buy in was high on pub standards.

if he done this trick in a proper venue then his hand would be deemed dead as far as i know (its happened to me as i did lose a few quid in a cash game, player said show me an ace and its yours, showed ace only, mucked my hand and he claimed the pot) so i thought let it go once and next time ill make it cost him.