A hand that has bothered me from the Bay101 WPT

[SossMan]

Cross posted from B&M...mods feel free to move or delete if this is the wrong forum.

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This hand came up on day 2.

I reraised a guy preflop and it was heads up to the flop.

Flop was J high and he bet into me. I called.

Turn was a blank and he bet and I raised him a large amount.

At this point in the tourney, this was a huge pot. Something like 100k or so in the middle by the time I put the raise in (avg stack was around 80k).

He sat and thought for a long time. After a couple minutes, he picked up his hand and held the cards perpendicular to the table, facing him, but with his arms outstreched (like he was reading a book). Both his neighbors could easily see the hand, as could the rail behind him.

It's an action I've seen a million times before someone makes a big muck. If you've played live, you've seen it, too. He even looked over at his neighbor to his right and said, "I saw you fold this hand earlier". The neighbor just nodded.

He eventually put it back down and just called.

Is there anything I should have done at this point? Isn't this a dead hand?

I'm not sure from an ethical standpoint and from a poker standpoint what I should do.

Note that I'm not looking to shoot an angle here, but I also want it to be one person to a hand and I want to be protected in a big pot like this.