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Originally Posted by DEKE01
Fair enough, Fore. I have stopped action preciously when I had seen cards. The dealer had me announce the cards, verified the player's cards, and then showed them to the table. In that case, it was enough to get the card exposer to take precautions.
I did the same thing in my early days of casino play and it wasn't well received. A player had opened the pot before the action got to me pre. There was a lot of anger at the table I didn't understand. When I folded, even more anger. I learned my lesson to keep my mouth shut if I wasn't going to be in the hand. It turned out that one of the players who was angry at me had KK, IIRC, and rightly felt I had killed his action. Lesson learned.
It's been a few months since the OP drunk story, but I don't recall being multi way when I knew his cards. Not sure. I know the big hands where I won or lost what I felt like was significant money, we were HU.
You did say he was doing it over half the time so if you were ever acting in early position it was multi-way. Even a limp in that case is acting with knowledge others don’t have. Some would say even folding would count.
Consider flasher has pocket aces and you have kings. He bets, you fold where you normally would have raised and now someone later to act has AK. Is he disadvantaged from what you knew and caused you to fold? Would he have folded to a raise and reraise?
Much more subtle and more debateable. But announcing you know his hand and folding meh. Not sure I would go that far.