Did I go over the line here (while dealing)?

[juanez]

I'm dealing a really fast and loose 2/5 SL HE game. There's this kid in the 5 seat and it appears that it's his first time playing live poker. He was cool as hell and a nice guy, but he had a habit of placing his hands over his cards so they were not visible. This was a bit annoying since the action was moving quickly and players behind him acted before he did because of it a few times. I asked him to stop covering his cards, but he did it on this hand anyway.

So on this particular hand, there are 7 or 8 players that see the flop. The first player bets and the action almost instantly goes to the 5th or 6th player with (almost) all of these players tossing in $5 practically simultaneously. Before I could say anything and while I'm still looking at him, the kid, who was the 2nd to act, speaks up saying "I have to call still". I say, "Hold up guys...it's his action." The kid calls.

This other guy, who is known as "Mike the Mouth" to all of the dealers, starts spouting off as usual. A little backround: Mike is a loudmouth jerkoff who plays loose as hell, comments on everyones hand, annoys everyone and thinks he is the man..this from a 30 something "sandwich engineer" from Subway, who regularly comes into the the poker room in his Subway uniform. Of course there's nothing wrong with working at Subway, but this guy thinks he's God's gift to poker and the authority on everything ever disussed at the table - it's comical to listen to this guy.

Mike kept calling the kid "Junior" because he was a young guy I guess. He says "Sh*t Junior...I wouldn't put that $5 in. He (meaning me) missed it. It's his fault..."

I respond with "Well, he (the kid) is honest and realizes he owes the pot $5. I appreciate that and I think everyone else here does too."

This sets Mike the Mouth off in a tirade. He says I have to learn how to deal, I don't know what I'm doing, and he goes on and on and on.

Again I respond, and maybe I shouldn't have, but I said "First of all, you acted out of turn - it was his action and I was waiting for him to act. Second, you sit in this box dealing cards for 8 hours every day and never make a mistake...I'd like to see that." Then I lean to my friend who is a dealer at another casino who's sitting in the ten seat and say "You take this when you're in the box?" My bud replies "HELL no."

A few at the table came to my defense and shut him up pretty quick. My buddy says to The Mouth "Pipe down and relax turbo." A great comment from another player was "So we can all expect you to short the pot whenever you have the chance?"

This shuts Mike up pretty quick and he loses his stack by the end of the next dealers down, obviously on tilt.

Usually I blow off any idiodic comments by players and simply carry on with my job, but this guy set me off. Frankly, we have awesome floor staff and one call to them would have had probably had him ejected, but I'm curious...should I have just STFU or was it right to point out that this POS is a POS to the whole table? It had little, if any, effect on the action. If anything it was detrimental to "Turbo" only. He was back the next day...