When you finish your meal in a restaurant, you put your knife and fork on the bottom right of your plate, with your fork left and and your knife right of it with the cutting side of the knife facing the fork. This is an example of etiquette in a restaurant. Something you do, or should do. The pokerworld has its own etiquette as well !
A lot of people, especially recreative players, do not know there are quite some no-go’s in the pokerworld. You can’t really blame these players and you’ll have to crop up with these people in exchange for the action you get from these amateurs
When playing with professionals, you can expect that everyone at the table will be treated with respect. Unfortunetely, this is more an exception than a rule. Quite often people don’t realise that certain actions at the table are low and impudent.
In this post and a few to come, I will point out to you beginners out there some important poker etiquette issues.
The slowroll
A lot of people don’t know the true meaning of this word. After all, there’s a difference between Slowplaying and Slowrolling. Slowplaying simply means you hide the strength of your hand in an attempt to get more money in the pot.
Slowrolling means you have the last action in a hand and you wait with calling while holding the nuts. E.g. someone goes all in and you’re holding 
, while the board is 
. More money can’t be put in the pot and still you’re waiting with your call while you know there’s no way you can lose. Doing so is extremely low, because you can give you opponent the idea he indeed has the winning hand. Why in godsname would you do such a thing?!
You can’t lose the hand and your getting nothing out of waiting with showing your hand. Some people say it’s part of the psychological aspect of poker, but no, it’s the lowest you can do. It serves no purpose at all and you’ll lose all the respect off the other players.
Next time I’ll be talking about Celebrations so be sure to tune in again!
