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I don't play a lot live, but I'm curious about how prevalent the following scenarios are, as well as whether there are any good recourses.

$10/20 limit Hold'em game at Northern Quest Casino in Spokane -- I'm in town with my girlfriend visiting relatives. $10/$20 is the biggest game they spread at this casino and it runs a few times a week. More than half of the players at the table seem like they're regulars. As such, there seems to be a lot of overly "friendly" play, such as the following:

When in a hand heads up with a friend, roughly 3-4 of the players would routinely expose their cards and check it down.

Several players would occasionally muck face up when there were a few friends still left to act (they got verbal reprimands, but that's it).

One player gave another player at the table some of the chips he had in play.

These things seem pretty common and nobody else objected -- is there any reason that a player can object to these plays? it seemed a little shady, especially when a group of 3 close regulars sat next to each other and were constantly talking quietly about ??? throughout hands (both in which they were involved and weren't).

The one play that seemed closest to collusion was as follows:

2 regulars are in a hand with an obviously weak player who is easily manipulated by common tells. Regular #1 bets, Weak guy calls, Reg. #2 raises, Reg #1 3-bets, as weak player is getting ready to call Reg #2 makes a show of getting his 4-bet ready. Weak player folds, Reg #2 just calls, the two regulars then proceed to turn their hands over and check it down.

Assuming I play a decent and winning TAG game, can I expect this this behavior hurt me? If so, what's the best way to handle it in the future? This is the only live game nearby that's spread higher than 3/6, so I'd like to keep playing in it, but I got sort of a bad vibe while playing.