This situation came up while i was on vacation and playing 2-5 spread limit poker with my wife. we were sitting at a table, my wife was next to an old man who drunk and not guarding his hold cards at all, my wife hand to look away from her hand and shift in her seat so not to look at his hand, she told him once, but he did not protect his cards after that. My quesiton is, would it be impropper/cheating to look at his hold cards when you are just looking at yours and at the table? Mind you, it is in your field of vision, you don't have to strain to see the cards, they are right there. FYI she never looked at his cards