Re: Is This Cheating?
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Everybody is playing for real, and everybody is doing whatever it takes to win.
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The mistake in your analogy is that assumption is not true for everyone at the poker table. For some players, poker is just a a way to have fun.
As a serious, prepared player, you should love these folks, and cater to them a bit, because they represent the -EV side that balances your +EV.
Now suppose one of these fun loving players stumbles into your game, is lax about protecting his hand, and then at some point realizes what is happening, and that the player on the right is taking advantage of that, without ever telling him?
Everyone's reaction is different, but it could be that the player resents playing with cut-throats, and decides to walk.
You have enough advantage from the mistakes other people mention (chasing draws improperly, etc) that you do not need to use this angle.
By telling the clueless player about it, you may just convince that player the game is friendlier than it actually is.
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