[pokergripes]

Well said, totally agree with DesD's post.

Unlike the portrayal of high-stakes poker on "Tilt", the real world of poker is not supposed to be (and, in my experience, typically is not) a ridiculously intimidating situation where a bunch of well-known pros are waiting to jump on a guy for a supposed breach of their style-of-play preferences.

Torching a guy's reputation over something that was, at absolute worst, a rude-but-effective play seems like a bad approach for top pros to be taking, and certainly does not seem at all justified on these facts.

Plus, if it had really been ten minutes, you can be SURE that everyone at the table would have been yelling "clock!" by the end. Seriously, what's the longest you've ever seen anyone take?