Eric Froehlich calls Rolf Slotboom a donkey

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Slightly old news, but nothing came up in a search. This hand took place in the 2000 No Limit event (quoted from Eric Froehlich's blog).

I chipped back to 14,000, when I opened UTG+1 with AsKc to 1300. It folded around to the SB, who went into the tank, and I mean really went into the tank. Three minutes passed without him doing much of anything besides quietly move his mouth, apparently doing math. He had only played one hand in the 4 hours I’d be at the same table as him, when he open shoved his button for 50bbs with Kh7h, sucking out on AdQd. He whispered something to the dealer, who made him repeat himself twice. I asked the dealer what he had said, and he said “the player says he is allin.” We were within 1 BB of each other, and he reraised my 1300 bet to 13,500. I instacalled, and it took him 30 seconds to finally realize he had to turn over his 8d9d. He started screaming like Mattias Anderson of the 2005 WSOP final table, telling the dealer to concentrate on 8s and 9s. I asked the dealer to please not reward the moron just one time. That would not be the case as the donkey kong got there and I was out.


Efro's blog that sparked the controversy
http://pokerwire.com/article/763/Event-25:-$2000-Limit-Hold'em
Efro's response to Rolf
http://pokerwire.com/article/863/A-L...hing-Different

Rolf's response to Efro's initial blog (See June 19)
http://news.pokerpages.com/index.php?opt...mp;limitstart=6
Rolf's response to Efro's response (See June 23)
http://news.pokerpages.com/index.php?opt...mp;limitstart=4

In short, Eric called Rolf a brain dead donkey, Rolf responded, Eric then said that other pros agreed that Rolf was a brain dead donkey, and Rolf responded again. Rolf doesn't appear to deny doing his Mattias Anderson impression and his justification for the play (that Eric was only a 60/40 favorite) seems pretty weak, as I'd expect Eric only calls with AK and overpairs.