He did it at the expense of someone else, without empathetic awareness how actions gratifying to himself would be hurtful to others. That's the definition of a sociopath.

He said in a later interview that he did it because he had friends and family at home that were watching it, and he thought there would be more drama if he Hollywood'd a bit.

So not a nitroll... an amateur player who doesn't know the etiquette, and thought he was having fun.

According to the guy, he didn’t know it was disrespectful. He came back and apologized to the table after he was told it was bad form.

It’s sort of like being in a foreign country. If you don’t know that stabbing your chopsticks into your rice is offensive in Japan, should people berate you for it?

Maybe he wanted to get even if the legend had taken almost all his money. As a revenge. He had his spot in the limelight.

(and made a complete fool of himself)

Austrian here. Can confirm.

(Just kidding

The Don is indeed pure class at all times - no one is more widely respected in Irish poker.

I thought I'd share a story about him that I heard from a Dublin taxi driver who used to swim on the same team (before he was a poker legend he was a swimming legend, to Olympic level). When I told the driver I was there for the Irish Open, he asked if I knew Donnacha, and we got talking about him.

This guy (can't remember the name, call him Paddy) was a young member of a team led by Donnacha who were attending a big swimming gala in Belfast. Paddy was given some money by his mother, with instructions on what presents to bring back for his sister, dad etc.

The team idolised Donnacha - he was older, an all-round cool guy, and they knew that he had a reputation as a good poker player. On the train up to Belfast, Paddy and another friend asked Donnacha to play some poker with them. He replied that he never played for fun. They tortured him, saying they would play for money, and after they kept at it for a while, he gave in, and played a game with them. Their money lasted about 15 minutes.

Up in the Belfast hotel, Paddy and his friend were sharing a room. They were both white faced and sick with shock and despair. Neither of them had any money to cover their hotel room, and Paddy kept thinking about what to say to his mother.

After the worst half hour of his life, a knock came on the door and Donnacha appeared. He said to them "Never, never, never play with money that you can't afford to lose!", and threw their cash on the bed.

Paddy has not placed a bet since.

my god,thats exactly what ppl by yoursef quoted in above post were refering:

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the tweet only confirms that 'he knew' he was wasting
other players time,nothing more...oh yes and as Barry Urinstein mention,not
even so observents poker pro's would pick this up(not specting much from nvg tho tbh)

i'm pretty confident that the only player may have had a clue of
wat was going was Donnacha himself,after decades of experience playing
live donkaments with ton of rec players.
Also,i'm WAY MORE DISGUSTED with other players schooling the german by showdown not about slowroll been bad etiquete but about wasting time from their blinds.
That's why the guy still hd no idea after busting.

http://www.irishpokerboards.com/foru...&postcount=220


and to end ,once again:

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nice hand sir

To be fair to the villain here he did seem to enjoy the suckout as much as anyone at the table.