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[QUOTE="tenbob, post: 359715, member: 3651"]
Ah wow this is a good discussion point.  Showing cards to someone HAS to have a reason.  Not just pre-flop but at any stage of a game.
 
Case point, a good freind of mine got (Dave)  hammered in a home game a few months back and I gave him a good collection of books and told him to "play by the book" for a while.  Good advise, but when you know someone is playing by the book they become a target.
 
So last month Dave was getting great cards and was chip leader at my table, I was a close second when it happened.  I bluffed the guy with pure rags, after calling a pre-flop raise and him leading the hand I put him all in on the river when the board paired.  So I said what the heck and showed him the rags.  
 
WOW the reaction was amazing, he tilted so hard he nearly fell off the table.  It was amazing, I never figured that you could get such a reaction from "just" showing cards.
 
Last night, same guy opposite situation (not against me). Dave showed rags to the table after taking down a big pot on rags.  But it didnt work out, the table figgured his game, his raises were no longer respected, so when Dave raised, people NEVER gave him respect for a big hand.
 
The moral of the story ? If you are going to show cards do it for a reason.  Why show AA if you min raise from the SB pre-flop what does it achieve ? If you have a reason, by all means go ahead and show, otherwise just dont bother, because you are giving the decent players at the table a free insite into your thinking.
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