Rabbit Hunt

Also known as: rabbit hunting, rabbit

Revealing the cards that would have come had the hand continued, after the pot is already decided — usually for curiosity, not strategy.

Rabbit hunting is asking the dealer to show the next card(s) that would have come had everyone not folded — for example, peeling the turn and river after a player folds a flush draw on the flop. It satisfies curiosity ("would I have hit?") and nothing more; it has zero strategic value and reveals information only after the hand is dead.

Most cardrooms and tournaments prohibit rabbit hunting, or allow it only when the hand is fully concluded and at the dealer's discretion, because it slows the game and can reveal deck order that affects the next deal. Many casinos burn-and-reshuffle or simply decline. Online, most clients don't offer it at all; a few cash apps include a paid or free "show next card" toggle.

Etiquette-wise it's harmless when permitted but mildly frowned upon at a serious table — it's a recreational habit, and over-doing it marks you as not there to grind. The information it gives you ("I would have rivered the flush") is outcome-oriented noise: it tells you nothing about whether the fold was correct, which depends on equity and pot odds at the time, not the card that didn't get dealt. Chasing that feeling is a small on-ramp to tilt.