Interesting Ethical Situation -- what do you do?

[Scooterdoo]

A few months back I was in the weekly NL tournament at the Hustler Casino and the guy to my right kept on making his cards visible to me. Of course he wasn't trying to do this and honestly, I wasn't going out of my way to look, but it was very hard not to see them.

What would you do in this circumstance? Would you keep on looking, would you turn your head away or would you tell the guy that he should cover up the cards? He wasn't much of a player and I didn't get into many hands with him, but the information certainly could have come in handy if the cirumstances were different.

[dtbog]

I think the standard 2+2 line is to tell the guy once that he should protect his cards.

When he inevitably doesn't protect his cards, feel free to look at them.

-dB

[schwza]

that's my line, unless it's an old dude or someone with excessively bad vision.

and i can give no reasonable justification for this whatsoever, but i probably wouldn't look at a woman's cards (even if i had no interest in boning).

[imported_torgeauxSA]

Tell him about it, and if he keeps flashing, use that info, and don't worry about it.

[Jax_Grinder]

Wow. To be honest, there is nothing "interesting" abou this situation. It has been the basis of no less than 25 threads on this board in the past 6 months alone.

That said, I will reply as alway: Rule #1 in Poker is "protect your own hand" and all that that concept entails. So, when someone is providing me that information (and so long as I am not going through some overt movement to "take" the information that would not otherwise be available to me) I keep my mouth shut and drive over the mark. Exceptions are made for sexy women and total novices.

[Scooterdoo]

Sorry to 'pollute' the forum with the 26th thread on the same topic. I'll try not to let it happen again.

[driverseati]

Personally, even though I would like to just not tell him anything, I give one warning, then he's fair game afterwards