Lawyer troubles

Well I am in my room at the Borgata waiting to go to the airport. When all is said and done I think I will have spent more time in the air then at the table this trip, which is why I think I am passing on WSOP London. I basically got crushed by one very loose player in a couple very big pots early and was never able to recover. My last hand was Kings vs Aces but I was down to less than 10k by then, and it was level 7 so…..

The only thing that happened of much interest came about by me sticking my nose into a pot I wasn't in, in fact I wasn't even at the table. I had just been moved to a new table and the hand was in progress. As I sat down Mark Seif had just turned his cards face up prematurely thinking a player had called his river bet, when he had actually said raise and thrown in the call first before making his raise, which is allowed. Mark was arguing that the player didn't say it loud enough, but the dealer had repeated it and all but one player at the table said they had heard it. So, ok, Mark waits for the guy to bet. He bets huge after some talking about what he should do. Oh yeah Mark had 89 off, with the board showing J8837. So now, in my opinion, Mark sees he cannot call, the Lawyer in him comes out, and he calls for a ruling. Of course the ruling has to go against him and does, but he continues arguing and complaining until another player calls for a clock which sends him over the edge, but the floor rightfully starts the 1 minute clock saying mark had had over 4 minutes just since he had been there. Now Mark points at the player who called the clock and floorman each in turn and yells "You're full of shit" "and you're full of shit". Naturally the floorman is forced to tell Mark he will get a penalty after the hand at which point he starts arguing that he should be allowed to say what he said and says it several more times. Then he has the balls to call for the supervisor to appeal both decisions. Amazingly the supervisor is listening to Marks argument for a minute or so and when Mark states that only one guy at the table heard the man say raise and nobody speaks up, this is when I can't take it and say angrily "All but one player heard the raise and you have tried this crap on me before ", which more or less ends the whole thing. He looks at me confused , forgetting, until I reminded him, of doing something similar, and succeeding, 3 or 4 yrs ago. He actually got out of calling any further bets in that case because he thought I was all-in on the flop when I wasn't, after an extensive string of appeals, in that case, and floormen being overruled by the TD. When he got back from his penalty hehad few words in regards to my taking a shot at him and his perfect reputation, which I had an all too obvious response (I felt almost like I hit him below the belt it was so easy), ending that line of discussion. He calmed down quickly and didn't fall for a couple players attempts to get him going again. I think the moral of the story is you can take the lawyer out of the courtroom but you can't take the lawyer out of the man.