Is this a slowroll???

[seanfaz]

Last night i was playing a £1/£3 cash game at the Vic and a hand came up where i was told that i slowrolled.......but i am very inexperienced in live cash games having only just been able to enter a casino and it was clearly accidental. But i still don't quite know how it was a slowroll and would like to know why...... Basically a big three way pot occurred where we got to the river with one player all in. I had two pair and checked behind the other player. As soon as i checked, the player who was all in declared that he'd missed and mucked his hand. The other player in the hand said he missed as well, and showed ten high. So i turned over one of my cards, an 8, which beat both players. Everyone said show your other, so i did, which was my 2nd pair. Immediately people started saying i had slowrolled. I apologised and said i didnt realise, but why was this a slowroll? The card i showed was good enough to win the hand anyway, so the other one didnt matter. I beat the player who showed, and the other had mucked, so i dont understand why it was a slowroll.........but as i say i am very inexperienced in live poker. Any explanation would be welcomed. Thanks

[Pocket Lady]

Re: Is this a slowroll??? Generally it means taking your time to show a winning hand. Some take it as bad etiquette as they think that you taking the mick out of the losers to wind them up.