Re: [ba-poker] Ethical guidance needed

[Tomium(deleted the rest)]

"Here is my ethical question: Is it OK to have a friend look over  my
shoulder while I play online, and to discuss the hands with my
friend  while I am playing them?"






Would it be okay if your friend had never played poker?  Would it be  okay 
for you to show him what a straight is and what a flop is and how to get an  
account and whatever else?  I'll assume your answer is yes.  
 
Now let's say your newbie friend goes home and opens an account of his  own.  
He plays by himself for an hour.  Now he is as much a poker  player as anyone 
else in that he has in fact played poker.  But he knows  almost nothing about 
playing poker, compared to you.
 
The next day he comes over and he wants to watch you play on your account  
and talk about the hands as you play them.  Would this be okay?   I'll assume 
your answer is yes.
 
In order for this arrangement to have the ability to change from being okay  
to being not okay, it would mean that the parameter you are using to judge  
okayness is not the ACT of discussing hands-in-progress with friends, it is  
the 
NATURE of the discussion.  Enter heaping subjectivism. My view is that  if 
you think you did something wrong, then you did, and if you don't, then you  
didn't. 
 
Tommy