[lmcclean]

Discussing the hand while in play has become accepted as angeling here. I know that 3-4 years ago this wasn't the case and a local card room threatened me with a lifetime ban for doing it. City wide, discussion by players involved in a hand about the hand in progress falls under angeling and not collusion. So yes, based on the standard that has been set down around here in the last 5 years or so it's perfectly acceptable. Had the showed each other their hand and offered to check it down I kill the hands in a heart beat. But to just say "I have XX, do you want to check?" is permitted. We view it as a player attempting to play their own hand because it isn't necessarily the case they have what they say they do. Seems to me that it's just different rules in different districts.