Severest Slowroll Ever?

[Nate.]

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Was it a slowroll? I mean if seat 3 was just waiting for seats 1&2 to muck or show an argument could just be made he was waiting for the action to get to him.

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One could strictly interpret the showing-in-turn-clockwise protocol and say that 3 was waiting for 1 and 2. But 3 knew that he had the winner as soon as 2 exposed his cards to him and 1 wasn't doing anything but mustering the will to stop hoping his hand would become a full house.

Even if we grant the 3 seat the full force of this protocol -- which, I think, etiquette demands we partially suspend in cases such as this one, when there is zero chance he's going to be giving away free information he wouldn't get anyway -- he still took several more beats as he surveyed the scene, held his hand up where the rest of the table couldn't see it, and then tabled it.

So, in my view, reasonable interpretations range from moderate pause to very long pause. In a huge pot with a near-felted player riding the exponential surge in confidence that comes once you've tabled a hand, the former is more than enough to label this a severe slowroll.

--Nate