I think common sense needs to prevail. For instance already this month i remember Dan being very gracious when the flop came K-8-8 and a player went all in with A-Q whilst Dan had K-K and the player (not a newcomer) threw his cards (face up) onto the muck pile (not intetntionally folding just furstrated at going all-in stupidly)
The turn and river were both aces, giving the other player a bigger boat, Dan graciously gave the player the pot but would've been quite within his rights to rake it himself.
The showing one card and folding happens all the time usually player A shows one card e.g top pair, player B mucks and player A rakes the pot and folds their other card. This is perfectly legal, because player B has mucked, but the other players should (i usually do) ask to see the winning players other card, if only for information, as they are within their rights to do so.
In fact they are also within their rights to see the losing players cards if they have not touched the muck pile.
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