Am I an angle-shooting douchebag?

[Mcbrag]

First off, it seems you have run into a glitch in their software, probably due to their having an incompetent/non poker experienced programmer and/or consultant who worked on their original programming. In the computer programming world it takes a while to get things like this fixed.

As you know, (and I'm still amazed at how many "online pros" don't) if you were in a live card room this would never have happened. The player attempting to rathole would be forced to sit out a certain amount of time before being allowed to reenter the game. I'm sure someone attempted this in the first card rooms in early America claiming it wasn't "against the rules", but these players soon were labeled cheaters and were shot by the other players. The card room managers at the time were getting tired of losing customers that way, so they were able to quickly implement the rules as they stand in most card rooms today.

Unfortunately, times have changed, and you are not able to shoot this scumbag angle shooter. (At least, it's not practical, what with travel, cleanup of DNA evidence, disposal of body, etc.). It looks as if you are just going to have to accept that your opponent was not cheating per se, but was unethical.

You have done the right thing by reporting the angle shooting glitch to the site and now you should let them know you will be taking your business elsewhere until the glitch is fixed and that they should contact you directly when it is because you are not going to check back. Much like the live card rooms of old, management will not really have an incentive to get this fixed until they start losing business.