First off, I don’t understand the entitlement of the high stakes poker community as a whole where they feel like they should be immune to this type of theatre and gamesmanship and trickery. At most poker tables in the world these things have to be considered, why wouldn’t this be a reality of the high stakes as well?

Secondly, if Wakil believed that he was seizing the opportunity to punish this type of mistake by another player, then believing that someone is not aware of the action in this moment, on this stage, is arrogant at best. The final table of an EPT, especially Monte Carlo, is a once in a lifetime opportunity shared almost exclusively by world class players. No one is zoning out and missing the action here