The player to my right raised me. I assumed he had a straight which beat my pair or two, so I folded and he took the pot.
Then when he threw the cards face down on the table and before the next dealer started shuffling, I couldn't resist. I reached for the cards, and looked at what he had.
"You're not supposed to do that," the man said to correct me. "That's not good etiquette."
He made a good point, and taught me a lesson. At some friendly tables, looking after the hand would be no biggie. But at a tournament (as this was), I could be in trouble. I could be sneaking a peek at an opponent's strategy.
So at a big-time poker table, secrets have some protection. And there's some Biblical backing for that. "Discover (reveal) not the secret of another," says the margin of my King James Bible in Proverbs 25:9.
If you really need to know a secret at the table, trust God to reveal it to you in the course of time. "For nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest." (Luke 8:17) Otherwise, we suggest not worrying about it.
P.S. That man to our right was bluffing.
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If you really need to know a secret at the table, trust God to reveal it to you in the course of time. "For nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest." (Luke 8:17) Otherwise, we suggest not worrying about it.
Card etiquette is a rather fluid standard... like the many possible rules when playing a game of rummy or even, Monopoly, lol.
I'm not sure about whether applying scripture to a game of cards is exactly Hoyle but... if it is, who's to say that 'peeking' wasn't manifest... and in the cards to begin with?
Go with the flow :)
Agreed on the different "house rules" with some games.
"Free Parking" jackpots in Monopoly -- good or bad?
Free Parking is in itself strictly socialist but the fact the the pot goes to a single player is entirely capitalistic.
Of course, once you factor in insurance premiums, taxes and environmental impact fees, it doesn't really matter because there's nothing left to argue about.
Yeow -- your Monopoly rules are the most complicated I've ever read! :--O
I thought the only "green" things about Monopoly were Pacific, North Carolina and Pennsylvania Ave.
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