The ethics of seeing a player's cards

[Honest Iago]

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By the way, in the instance of this one woman who I originally posted about, I could offer more evidence for why I truly believe it's a physical problem with her size and not her eyesight, but then I'm sure I'll be accused again of making fun of people, so I'm just going to drop the whole thing.

For those who offered thoughtful, helpful suggestions, thanks, I'll take them into consideration.

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Your sizism is holding us all back you pig. We need to all hold hands and sing, WE SHALL OVERCOME!

Seriously though, the players are so bad in Booneville, MO, stuff like this happens all the time. I agree with the "giving one warning" suggested by the poster above as an ethical way to proceed. I think barring something really ridiculous the plus sized player could come up with a system for looking at her hole cards if she decides to make the effort. If the other players in the game are so horribly unobservant that the don't recoginize that you are being given a huge advantage, too bad for them. It's Booneville baby. Start humming circus music at the table like I do.

-Dan

[wrschultz]

If anyone is exposing their cards where I can easily see them, I will ALWAYS tell them to protect their hand. If they continue doing it, I wont always just look at their hand, but I wont try to not look either.

[Lucere]

Dan, I'm glad you understand that I'm talking about a breed of player in mid-Missouri that is horrible beyond the imaginations of most posters on here, especially those who are used to Vegas, Cali, or AC casinos. I've experienced this phenomenon at Harrah's in STL too, but yes, Boonville is where this originally occurred.

[Honest Iago]

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Dan, I'm glad you understand that I'm talking about a breed of player in mid-Missouri that is horrible beyond the imaginations of most posters on here, especially those who are used to Vegas, Cali, or AC casinos. I've experienced this phenomenon at Harrah's in STL too, but yes, Boonville is where this originally occurred.

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There are many shades of terrible. I was in Vegas for the Super Bowl last year and the players were not good at all. But they were mainly happy go lucky types with "Gambol, Gambol, Gambol" constantly running through their brains.

At Booneville different types of pathological behavior are more common.

[Lucere]

Seriously, thanks to whatever mod changed the thread title. It wasn't my intention to offend earlier.

[govman6767]

Since I'm fat I can make fun of fat people. Being a big person I was asked once to pay a time charge for 2 seats..... I asked the floor person if he worked for American Airlines. He proceded to get a security guard even fatter than me and I spent two days at the health center recovering from a shattered femur.

[MRBAA]

Aha, that's why Raymer didn't repeat as WSOP champ!