You're sitting in seat 1 and you can occasionally see the cards when the dealer deals to seat 5-7. Your course of action:

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“There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.” - John von Neumann

Depends on what the cards are I am seeing.

Beavis responds before I even make the poll... amazing! We have a new bonchkid here!

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“There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.” - John von Neumann

usually I'll tell the dealer openly by announcing the card I saw (so that the person receiving it can tell I'm legit and verify it). I do the same most of the time when I catch a peek on the bottom of the deck (for those rare locales that don't use cut cards still). yes, it pisses some dealers off, but the way I see it, its an integrity of the game issue...the dealer's action shouldn't tilt the odds for/against me. (as compared to seeing the cards in the hand of the player next to me because he insists on peeking at them by holding them up at arm's length to view them every hand...which I'll keep quiet about all night long)

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:cool:

To be successful in business, surround yourself with professionals. To be successful in poker, surround yourself with idiots.

I was playing in a home game once and my friend who was sitting next to me told the guy who was dealing that he just saw the last 5 cards that were dealt.

The dealer goes something like, "No way, I'm not dealing that sloppy."

My friends points to the cards that are face down and goes something like, "5 of clubs, A of spades, J of hearts, 2 of hearts, 6 of spades." And he got them all correct.

That'll learn 'em!

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"Ok, this is for the game. How you doin' over there? NOT TOO GOOD!"" -Bubble Boy

first missy calls me an ass, now you call me bonchkid.

What did I do to earn this disrespect?

Low blow....

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“There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.” - John von Neumann

I see nothiiing...nothiiiing.

I'm playing a little devil's advocate, but I fail to see any difference. You happend to be at the right place at the right time, you are not going out of your way to do it, it just happens.

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Bean181818: some guy came up just grabbed my hand and starting massaging it, since it wasn't you, i told him to fuck off
xcrunman02: yeah only I can do that, i don't need some gook trying to get with my life partner
Bean181818: i've been faithful
xcrunman02: me too
Bean181818: peck tried to get all this but i told him this was all taken, all of it!

I think those are two very different examples. You shouldn't be able to pick up information on a hand from the dealer. If a player exposes his own hole cards.. well thats his fault..

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“There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.” - John von Neumann

I agree with you bonch, but I still think it is a similar principal. you are profiting from some one elses mistake, in a home game I would tell the dealer, in casino, I am not so sure.

May wait until the end of the game and tell a floor person on my way out.