Mucking and Flashing

Mucking, you’ll remember, means discarding your hand face-down while flashing means showing your winning hole cards to the table after everyone else has folded out of a hand.
In live games, there’s an unwritten rule that if you flash your cards to one player at the table, you must reveal them to the others as well (“Show One, Show All”).

Online, you have the option to auto-muck losing and uncalled winning hands, usually by checking the appropriate pre-action buttons. When this option is activated, any hand you’re not required to reveal will be discarded face-down into the muck. The upshot of all this is that your opponents won’t know your down cards, and as a result, they can’t tie your betting pattern to a full hand.

There are certain situations, however, in which you may want to flash that winning uncalled hand. Flashing a pure bluff on a big pot, for example, can unnerve your opponents and throw them off their game. Sometimes, if you’ve caught a miracle hand such as a royal flush, you’ll want to flash that just for pride’s sake. Hell, you’ll probably want to print it out and frame it.



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