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Originally Posted by Dream Crusher
The one time I can think of a big name poker pro really being hammered by commentators was when Scott Nguyen got drunk and belligerent at the final table of the poker players championship and that was only because it was right in front of us, and he's still way less of a scumbag than most of these players.
I'm sure there are others. James Hartigan strikes me as someone who doesn't suffer fools on his broadcasts, for example.
In the Phil Hellmuth-Christian Dragomir hand, I recall Norman Chad describing Hellmuth as being "out of line." (That might have just been Matusow, though.) And I have a memory of Stapes taking umbrage at Tony G angle-shooting then chiding Hellmuth on The Big Game.
Can't remember what Chad or McEachern had to say about the Friedman-Lisandro scuffle over the missing ante, but I also recall the "out of line" phrase being uttered there. Also, there was a situation in which Shawn Sheikhan reacted to a flop that he otherwise would have hit, and I want to say Chad called him out for that. Hard to call Sheiky a "big name pro," though.