[private joker]

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The dealer should always kill a hand before showing.

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Nonsense. Dealer doesn't kill the hand if the winner of the pot asks. If anyone else at the table asks, then the hand is killed -- that way it doesn't affect the winner of the pot. In OP's situation, the guy got what was coming to him for being a jerk and asking to see the losing hand of a player who just busted and left the table.