Table-talking William Kassouf was one in every of main focal points of ESPN’s World Series of Poker main event coverage this year. His showdown with Stacy Matuson was one of the vital mentioned hands of this year’s world championship. Even Card Player’s own Rules Guy chimed in along with his opinion.

During the newest WSOP main event broadcast, covering day 7 of the tournament, Kassouf’s chatty antics and penchant for dragging out hands ended in a tense interaction with the table. Michael Niwinski had missed a flush draw with the KJ on a 8549A board and checked to Kassouf. Kassouf had paired his AQ at the river and started his routine.

“Missed your flush draw? Had a flush draw? 910, right?” asked Kassouf.

After a couple of moments with the action on him Kenny Hallaert called the clock.

“It hasn’t been that long!” protested Kassouf. The ground agreed and insisted that he accept sufficient time to behave on his hand, however the majority of the players on the table disagreed and argued that he was a serial offender when it came to unnecessarily extending the length of hands.

“You keep chatting with people who aren’t answering back,” said Cliff Josephy, veteran poker pro and WSOP bracelet winner. “No one is answering you in any hand. Stop chatting with everybody.”

“I’m entitled to talk,” replied Kassouf.

“You’re entitled to everything, this table is all about you,” replied Josephy dryly.

Every other player on the table chimed in with their thoughts on Kassouf, with the consensus being that they were bored to death along with his technique to the sport and can be calling the clock on him frequently from there on out.

Kassouf eventually announced a raffle of three million chips and Niwinski quickly folded. After the pot was pushed to Kassouf the ground person let the table know that he was keeping track of the clock when it's Kassouf’s turn to behave and reminded them that he's allowed two minutes to behave on his hand. This ignited a second wave of frustration on the table.

Josephy and Kassouf continued backward and forward a bit, resulting in this exchange.

“Just have a look at your cards prematurely. We don’t need the clown show,” said Josephy.

“There’s not a clown show,” replied Kassouf.

“You are a clown,” snapped Josephy as Kassouf continued to stack chips with action on him. “Clown.”

Lead Tournament Supervisor Charlie Ciresi came around and told the table he's going to be monitoring the location. Later within the broadcast a short-stacked Matthew Moss moved all-in over Kassouf’s 550,000 raise for 4,770,000 with the A8. Kassouf went into the tank with pocket threes and commenced to speak at Moss, seeking to gain information from him. Ciresi informed him that Kassouf was overstepping his bounds by asking Moss what he wanted him to do.

After several moments Kassouf spoke to go Tournament Director Jack Effel looking to clarify what he could and couldn’t do. Minutes after Moss had shoved Kassouf finally asked for a count of his opponent’s stack. Shortly afterwards the clock was called on Kassouf.

As time wound down Kassouf folded his pocket threes and showed the remainder of the table, who were clearly frustrated along with his snail’s-pace strategy to the game.

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