Abby Merk

But at the same time, I think especially in the main event, like with Kasuf in particular, he was delaying the game.

He was getting into all these antics when the stakes were the highest that they possibly could have been.

And like to me, I have a lot of empathy for the people that were at the same table with him in the sense that like if this was like the biggest score of your life or like the deepest run of your life and you're sitting there playing for the most money you've ever played for.

Like some of these guys before this, their biggest cash was 10K.

They're now fighting to get between 250K and the next pay jump is $300,000.

Wow.

Like, that is insane, right?

And, like, truthfully, a lot of the game of poker is mental.

And so if he's, like, attacking that and he's stalling and he's causing disruptions to the game in that way, I do have a lot of empathy for those players because, truthfully, it's like...

you know, yeah, he's good for poker.

He's good for the viewership.

Undeniably poker loves a villain, you know, but at the same time, like these people are also equally deserving to a respectable game of poker.

And I feel like they were robbed of that.

I don't remember who said this on Twitter, but I thought someone had like a really good take that I agreed with.

I think that the biggest issue that I had with the whole thing was the fact that on day six, they basically were like, ha ha, like Kasuf, so funny.

Like this guy, come on now, watch your tongue.

You know what I mean?

Like mind your mouth.

And then on day seven, they came in and they went like ape shit on the guy.

Like they legitimately were like, say one word and you're disqualified.