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Message: [QUOTE="rhoudini, post: 6765266, member: 1015282"] When it comes to ethics, the answers usually will be quite different from one another. Before coming up with an answer, it is important to have in mind these premisses: [LIST=1] [*]It is [B][I]his[/I][/B] responsibility to protect his cards. A poker player needs to know that he is at risk when he does not protect them. [*]It is not ethical to try to look at opponent's cards or to benefit from this exposition deliberately. Yes, it is cheating. Even if he does not realize you're looking, other players might see and your image will be damaged forever. [*]However, I don't see as unethical to use any information you end up accidentaly getting to decide what is best for you. [/LIST] Having this in mind, and having warned him about this, and having received a terrible answer, my behavior would be this: [LIST=1] [*]It is important to [B]not change our default behavior[/B] just because of his answer. We offered the best we can offer to someone: friendship. This counsel is a counsel of a friend, despite that at the table there are no friends. If he refuses this "counsel of a friend", there's nothing I can do for him anymore. But I will not become a cheater just because he does not care for what I say. [*]Therefore, I would try not to look, as I don't try to look to anyone's cards. I keep playing the same way. [*]However, if it happens that I end up taking a peek at this cards unintentionally, I will use this information to help me deciding what to do in this particular hand. However, I would try to avoid situations that seem "spetacular" like amazingly catching his bluff with a 10-high, for example, because this could get me an [B]enemy[/B], and this is worst than losing a bit of money. [/LIST] This answer expresses my principles at the table. Another option is to let all the table know that in a particular hand you accidentaly could see other player's cards, even don't wanting to do it, but that now you are taking your action (usually a fold) and you will shut up and be quiet for the whole hand. However, I just see this option working well if the table is full of great people that know you and understand that it really was an accident, and if you fold. Makes no sense to let them know you saw the hand and you keep playing. [/QUOTE]

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