Dealer keeps showing people my cards
 

This is a recurring problem for me. I call to the river and lose. I muck my hand, and someone at the table says "I want to see that hand". Dealer pulls my cards out of the muck and shows them.

One time I called the floor on this one woman because she kept asking the dealer for my cards. The floor agreed that she was abusing the rule. Lastnight, I called the floor when a woman who asked to see my cards got the dealer to retrieve them from the muck and then started screaming at me when I told her that she was being rude.

The floor said "she has the right to see your hand"
I said "she's abusing the rule"
Floor says "everyone has the right to see your hand"
I say "Are you telling me that I have to show my cards on the river everytime even when I don't bet? Thats not poker, floorman"
etc, etc.

This is a pet peeve of mine. I've had this pulled on my 5 times in the last 10 hours I've been playing. Is there anything I can do? I seriously want to stop the dealer from showing my cards by eating them or something. Its driving me nuts.

Re: Dealer keeps showing people my cards
 

Try mucking a winner.

Re: Dealer keeps showing people my cards
 

If someone does it to you, every time they are in a pot at the river, ask to see their cards.

Alternatively, learn to turbo-muck.

Re: Dealer keeps showing people my cards
 

It is thoroughly annoying, yes. However you can take solice in the thought that virtually everyone who does this is a losing poker player. So theoretically the more people who do this at a table the bestter your edge.

Re: Dealer keeps showing people my cards
 

I do turbomuck. The dealer REMOVES my cards from the muck. This is all at hollywood park of course.

Re: Dealer keeps showing people my cards
 

at my local B&M theres a rule against this. Once you muck your cards, only you can "unmuck" them. If someone wants to see them, its entirely on you to do so.

Ive never seen someone "Check" someones mucked cards. If they did, I'm sure they would get a stern talking to.

Re: Dealer keeps showing people my cards
 

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Lastnight, I called the floor when a woman who asked to see my cards . . .
The floor said "she has the right to see your hand"
I said "she's abusing the rule"


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I'm not a fan of the IWTSTH rule, buty you are never going to get a floor person to rule that a single instance of asking to see your cards is abusing the rule.

Re: Dealer keeps showing people my cards
 

practice firing your cards into the muck so they are unretrievable. the other thing to do is ask to see every single persons hand mucked.

Re: Dealer keeps showing people my cards
 

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It is thoroughly annoying, yes. However you can take solice in the thought that virtually everyone who does this is a losing poker player. So theoretically the more people who do this at a table the bestter your edge.

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Negative

Re: Dealer keeps showing people my cards
 

My move would be to make sure you see that womens cards everytime she goes to show down. Make sure you really act like a nit when you do it also...I did this to one guy over the summer, I totally tilted the [censored] out of him. It was awesome.