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Me too, obviously. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] This comes up enough that it's probably worth addressing as a dealer training issue.

What would be the ideal procedure here? In my view, perhaps an observant dealer should set aside the cards without being asked, and wait until the very end of the hand to integrate them in the muck. At that point an observant player could discreetly say, "I'd like to see," and she could turn them over for the whole table. The owner of the hand might object and get a lesson in SOSA, but the effect would look less like the player who asked to see was being a nit.

The problem with that suggestion is, the dealer can't possibly see what's going on at both ends of the table simultaneously. Still, it's better than making me admit in public to my nittishness.

I don't say that the dealer should go so far as to offer to show the hand, but it seems like she could facilitate it. But that's asking a lot, which is why better training on this issue might be helpful.

The Borgata staff (both dealer and floor) handled it well in this situation, as they generally do, but there's gotta be a way to grant me my SOSA rights without forcing me to piss off the whole table to get them. Doesn't there?