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Just a little taste from one of the many articles about this.....

And the readers do let little details slip through. When Lubarsky's reader told him two young men across the table were doing chip tricks, flipping the disks through their fingers, Lubarsky knew he was dealing with hot shots. Amateurs. Showoffs. He took this into consideration when he played his hand , and beat them both.

Now you can have whatever opinion you want about the value, or lack thereof, of that information. That's not the point. The point is that this second individual IS influencing how the hand is being played by seat #x and that violates the rules.