[DavidC]

Hi Rick. Nice to meet you. I was villain in scenario #1. Here's my version of what happened:

Floor had just closed the conversation with the agitated player by asserting that they were going to drop it, relatively politely. Player had shut up, but was still really pissed about it and was definitely going to go off if anyone talked to him about it.

You asked the floor to give you details on the situation, loud enough for me, on the opposite end of the table, to hear you. This is straight up retarded as it only serves to fan the flames. If you really wanted to know, you should have left the table, pulled the floor aside, and asked him discretely.

FWIW, I shouldn't have told you to shut up: nothing good can come to me as a result of that -- you won't change your behavior, and my image gets shot to hell. When I learn to control myself in these spots things will be a lot easier for me.

I can't remember the exact hands that we played after that. I think you sucked out on me once and I got caught bluffing once, but the table was pretty dismal and I wasn't confident in my play at that point, due to the stress of dealing with you and things seemed pretty taggy there, so I left. FWIW you seemed like a pretty solid player, but small sample size of course.

In the future, both of us should try to just let the floor deal with stuff like that.