Foxwoods Angle Shooter Goes Ballistic

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I watched this hand unfold between a rather nice, donkish Australian player and what I thought was a typical 2/5 reg.

The board is something like A[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] J[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] 2[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] T[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] 5[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] and the Aussie makes a small $50 bet into a pot that had about $150 or so in it.

The non-regular starts talking about what the Aussie has, clearly trying to get some sort of read. He then shrugs, turns his hand face up showing K[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] T[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] and motions ever so slightly towards the muck. The Aussie, assuming that his opponent had folded, then pushes his cards towards the dealer. The instant the dealer starts dragging the cards towards the muck, Angle Shooter yells "I CALL! HIS HAND IS DEAD IN THE MUCK! I WIN!"

Before anyone does anything I immediately say, "You are such and angle shooter. You are so disgusting."

Angle shooter then erupts. "WHAT THE [censored] YOU CALL ME AN ANGLE SHOOTER?! I KNOW THE RULES, YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW THE [censored] RULES, I AM PLAYING BY THE RULES AND YOU ATTACK MY CHARACTER" and on, and on, and on. I was a little shocked at the reaction but just sat back and enjoyed it as floor personnel started swarming.

Meanwhile, the dealer still has the Aussie's cards in his right hand about 1 ft away from the muck. As the floor tries to sort out what is going on and get people to calm down, Mr. Dynamite shouts some gems like "I AM CALM, I'M NOT ARGUING!!! HE CALLED ME A [censored] ANGLE SHOOTER! I'M ALLOWED TO FLIP OVER MY CARDS TO GET A READ! HE DOESN'T EVEN KNOW THE RULES!"

At this point I politely tell him that he is, in fact, not allowed to do this. His response is a lot more red-faced yelling. The floor then tells him to calm down and, hilariously, for me to do the same. The floor also informs him that he is not allowed to show his cards during a hand, then has the dealer flip over the Aussie's A[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] Q[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] and says the pot is awarded to the Aussie.

After a lot more screaming, including some personal attacks, the man eventually calms down a bit, the pot is pushed towards the Aussie, and the floor prepares to leave. At this point I just couldn't help myself and said "He still owes $50! He said "call" after the other guy bet $50 and never put it in the pot!."

The floor then tells him to give $50 to the Aussie, and Angle Shooter throws it across the table at him.

It is difficult for me to describe how angry this man was at me after the hand. I thought it was great when he started tilting away money, but not so great when he then started threatening me with "I'll take care of you if you ever-do-that-again" style.

In the end he apologized and I didn't bust him. Oh well.