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[QUOTE="AlwaysStuck, post: 392522, member: 10449"]
[b]Playing with cards exposed[/b]

I've actually played hold 'em with all the drawn cards exposed!  The local smoking club was having a hold 'em tournament for members, and five of us who arrived early decided to have a dry run with play money involved.  Two of us knew poker hands--I think they'd played five-card draw before--but had not even played a single hand of any stud game, including hold 'em.  To help them get a little practice, we played a few hands with all hole cards exposed.

Sklansky says in his book--and I can't remember the page reference--that, if everyone's cards were exposed, there would always be one mathematically correct way to play each hand.  But, when you have to consider position, pot and implied odds, outs, and other things, the thought process can get so complex that you don't have time to puzzle it all out before the other players start complaining that you're taking too much time.  The five of us played only about five hands in 25 minutes and spent the rest of the time discussing each player's decision.

I also think there is limited value in discussing how people would play if all cards were, in fact, exposed.  Open hands eliminate not only any edge a player might have, but a significant amount of the thinking that goes into deciding what your opponent has in a real game, where you can't see his cards.  IMO learning to deal with incomplete information is a huge skill Sklansky discusses in great detail, and the rest of poker can't really be separated out from it.

The Bleeder
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