Re: Guy flips up opponents cards (Conversation with Dealer)
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Yes, I know the letter of the law is that Player D should hand the cards to the dealer, and let HIM turn them up. But in this case, what's the freaking difference?
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I'm the resident SOSA nit here (getting much better, thank you) and I don't think I've ever heard that the player is allowed to grab another player's cards to hand them to the dealer. AFAIK there's no good reason to touch another player's cards. Even requests like "fold me if I don't come back from the bathroom in time" make me uncomfortable.
I would say that most dealers are really bad about enforcing SOSA though. I saw a guy at the Horseshoe Tunica this week say, in a clear audible voice, "I'd like to see your hand," at a time when he was entitled to. Dealer mucked it all, claimed not to have heard it. Grrr.
(Which brough up an interesting point -- does that revive the mucked hand a la IWTSTH? I would imagine not -- SOSA is not an annoying IWTSTH request, so shouldn't be penalized as such. But the dealer said it would revive the mucked hand.)
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