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Originally Posted by browni3141
"Cheating, cheating, cheating...." yet you can not reference a rule.
Cite a rule supporting your position and I will reply with thanks, otherwise I don't think this is going anywhere. Without a rule forbidding the behavior this may be unethical to you, but it is not cheating.
Interestingly, I can only find one mention in RRoP about looking at your opponents' cards, and it refers specifically to your guests, not to the players themselves:
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22. You may have a guest sit behind you only if no one in the game objects. It is improper for a guest to look at any hand other then your own.
Nonetheless, as a floor I would consider it cheating if you contorted yourself into a non-natural position and took active measures to view your opponent's cards, and I would treat it as such and bar you from the room for at least some length of time. Basically, if you are behaving in a non-normal way to see cards which your opponent is protecting in a normal way, you are cheating and I will sanction you.
On the flip side, if your opponent is not protecting his hand and you are able to see them, then while you are still gaining an advantage, I would say that you are mainly violating an ettiquette, but it is the other player who I would sanction, absent some disability or other ADA type accommodation which would need to be made. If he refused to protect his hand, then I would remove him. If he requested accommodation but you refused to play nice, however, I would probably still remove you, or at least move you to another table where you would not gain an advantage.
IMO, anyway.