Internet Poker Etiquette - Showing your cards

I imagine there must be some kind of setting on when to show your cards. Because to think that you manually have to do it at the culmination of each winning hand is seriously bizarre.

The background for this story:

10k buy in game (plus the maintenance costs - the Internet poker free money mortgage must be paid.) Two tables. Lots of "people" hitting the 14 second warning (i.e. slow) lots of all ins and nobody except me plasying like they care about serious competition.

My patented formula is to wait for two conditions to be met. I must be dealt an ace and I must have folded a hand that otherwise would have won. Once these conditions have been met I've avoided a ton of bad beats and seemingly pre-programmed play. Whether paranoid delusion, or that I might be right about the nature of what's going on it's worked. I know have the most chips on PokerStars since a year ago when I got to sit at high buy in games (25k+) and for my own satisfaction played and watched as the statiscally unreal cards were dealt.

Occasionally, we here at the Big Laydown (me and my Calculatron and a half eaten box of Girl Scout cookies) like to reflect on doing something new and different to shake things up a bit.

A side product of patience, lots of folding and gaining 300k chips in a couple of weeks is admission that first place is a ridiculous dream that just can't happen. So, as I play I have the calming mentality that my George Foreman grill and re-runs on TV will keep me happy. Finish second, yawn, unplug the puter (hacker prevention) eat more cookies, delete cookies, go to sleep and see what's going on tomorrow.

So I said to myself, "Self - what exactly does happen when you nuke your second place stack instead of bothering to play against a rigged better than really can be expected vacuum you used to eliminate all the others?"

The answer is here. Admittedly just bizarre and not concrete. But since I think my credibilty is better than PokerStars I'll mention it.

My vacuum adversary and I are heads up. I chat that it was a great game and I have to go and sit out. He compliments me on the great game and proceeds to annhilate me. And I stay and watch the vivisection.

You show your cards. Must be a setting I haven't figure out because to show your cards to an obviously inactive player is meaningless. And since losing in this manner is greased bunny quick I missed the screen shot where he actually raised when calling would have killed me. Human nature says that you're smart enough to play a 10k buy in, pleasant enough to throw in an occasional compliment in chat and that you would simply call every hand that will be a sure fire winner.

But vacuums don't behave that way. They have no remorse. They have no morse code. They have no humanity.

Vacuums SUCK.