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Andrew tried to be fair and asked everyone at his table to play slow. They refused, so he played slow. His table-mates started to berate him, and put a ton of pressure on him to speed up. He refused, and ended up getting very emotional as they berated him.

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He asked everyone at the table to stop playing at all until the guy came back, but the TD wouldn't stop the tournament so the other tables would keep playing. This clearly isnt fair to any shortstacks at that table. He just started stalling, not making any decisions so that someone ended up asking for a clock on him every time it was his turn to act.

No one berated him at all, just tried to reason with him from their viewpoint. There was nothing mean spirited at all in any of the discussion. Black just got really upset about the whole thing, mostly imo due to his just being exhausted.