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Since players with losing hand want to avoid exposing their hands first during showdown which would give advantageous information to the other players, there is a rule in poker games regarding revealing of cards at showdown which states that the last player who had betted or raised during the game must be the first one to expose his hands. Alternately, the player seated left to the dealer button is asked to begin card revealing at showdown.

Incase a game is played with a side pot, those players involved in competition for the side pot are required to reveal their cards before the player who has gone all-in and is playing only for the main pot. Sometimes, to speed up gameplay, poker players are encourage to display their winning hands as soon as they have determined they hold such a hand.

Sometimes on suspicion of collusion or other forms of cheating, a poker player can put in a request to view his opponent’s hand is it was eligible for showdown, regardless whether the hand has been mucked or not. This privilege is required by players to be used discreetly as calling for an opponent’s hand to be viewed without suspecting foul play can make a player be cautioned by the dealer or altogether prohibited from the game. That is why nowadays casino houses limits the number of times a player can request to view a mucked losing hand at showdown. Some casino houses do not recognize a player’s right to see mucked hands but if suspicion of cheating by collusion is formally expressed to the management such a right can be conditionally allowed by the house rules.

Since most players opt to fold their losing hands rather than dragging them till showdown, it can encourage the tactics of call-bluff. If a player habitually bluffs but folds before showdown, another player can take the advantage of calling this player’s last bet even with an inferior hand than the bluffing player, since the bluffer would always fold and not take the game to showdown.