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If a player clearly asks me as a dealer to show a hand (assuming the rules provide for showing this hand) and I hear him while you still have the cards in your hand YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO MAKE YOUR CARDS IRRETRIEVABLE UNLESS YOU DO SOMETHING WHICH WILL GET YOU KICKED OUT OF THE ROOM.

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Don't be so certain of that. I remember once someone asked to see the one seat's hand. THe muck was protected. He grabbed my thumb and bent it backwards until my hand came off the muck. Before I could call the floor over to tell him about this clwon twisting my thumb he was yelling about me pulling his cards out of the muck after he pulled my hand off the muck. He was premitted to continue playing. Granted his cards weren't irretrievable, but the rules there did not allow pulling them out of the muck for IWTSTH, but given how they went there I was more than happy to show this guy's hand.