IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THE FINAL TABLE OF THE USPC, STOP READING NOW, BECAUSE THIS IS A SPOILER...I don't think I've ever felt worse for a player than when D'Agostino got busted (basically) by Hoyt attempting to take his BB from the SB when everyone folded around (which I'm guessing was almost an automatic move by Hoyt...but I could be wrong).So I'm just curious how everyone felt about his mental collapse when Hoyt asked if he'd push over his chips (all but the singe 1000 chip he had left) over to him and he proceeded to shove them in a very undelicate manner over to Hoyt.I, myself, do not recall ever seeing someone act so poorly at the poker table yet feeling not one iotta of animosity towards him. The hand was nausiating, and his actions, while very "unsportsmanlike," were actually surprisingly restrained.The quick backgroud, of course, is that John went to the final table with something like 1.6 million in chips (about four times? more than second) and took bad beat after bad beat (throwing in one ill-timed bluff and a hard call which made it so) before this hand. The hand was Hoyt in the SB and John in the BB with folds around and Hoyt moving all in with 78o. John finds TT, almost defeatedly calls (probably expecting a race situation), only to find he's a huge favorite. Flop comes X77. Okay. That's bad, but the turn is the fourth 7. Thinking about the hand and the ridiculously play by Hoyt still makes me nautious.Anyway, just wanted to get this ball rolling and say that I have never enjoyed the antics of Hellmuth and Hellmuth-like players who act poorly at the table, and this is the only time I've ever seen someone act poorly where I did not, not even for one second, hold it against them.My $0.02.
