Abuse at the table

So I was playing in one of the William Hill Headhunter tournaments last night, quietly minding my own business, when a hand came up against the tournament chip leader at the time.

I had doubled up with trip kings a few hands earlier, then got moved tables. Blinds were 75/150, and I had a stack of around $7000. I got dealt A8o in mid position. All folded to me, I made my standard 3x raise of $450. All folded to chip leader (with about $8500) who simply called in the small blind.
Flop was x67. He checked. Now I would usually put out a continuation bet here, but I had this feeling that I would be check-raised. My thinking was that you don't get to 8500 in chips early without being aggressive. Aggro players don't check. I therefore checked behind for the free card.
Turn was a 9 giving me an open-ended straight draw. SB put in a bet of 600 which was about half the pot. I was getting about 3:1 on my money, and if I hit, I could get paid by the aggro player, so I called.
River was a 5, giving me the straight. He bet, and I pushed. He called showing QQ.

I had doubled to a big chip lead with $14,000.

The guy then started berating me big time calling me all sorts of names under the sun. I kept quiet. The funny thing is that he misplayed his hand, and started accusing me of being a calling station. He then turned to a verbal tirade in German. My German certainly isn't good enough to work out what he was saying, but it was fairly obvious it was not pleasant. Anyway, I decided to copy the chat just in case it was nasty. The guy moved tables a few hands later.

In the meantime, I posted the chat on a couple of forums to see if I could get a translation from native German speakers.

We both ended up going deep in the tournament and the guy got moved to my table a further 2 times. On each occasion he would continue to call me names. This I could put up with as I could ignore it, but the worse thing was that he would comment to everyone else when I was in a hand. For example, I made a pre-flop raise first-in from cut off (with JJ), and he wrote "he's bluffing".

After the tournament, I checked the forums and found indeed that what he said wasn't pleasant (I won't repeat it). Everyone said I should report him, so I did.

We all get comments from time to time, but this went too far. I did not suck out on him, he misplayed the hand (I didn't tell him that). But to continue over an hour later, and make comments when I'm in a hand is simply inexcusable. I admit, it did put me off my game a bit, and I didn't play that many hands whilst he was around (although I was card dead for most of the time anyway).

I hope William Hill take some action, even if it's a temporary chat ban for him.

Maybe these Headhunter tournaments aren't for me

A while ago I mentioned that I loved the new Headhunter tournaments at William Hill. I've had some great finishes, but I've not made as much prize money as I should have.

The way the prize money works is that 50% of your entry fee goes to the prize fund, and the remainder goes towards the bounties. You get bounties for knocking players out.

I have reached the final table on about 4 occasions now with 2 top 4 finishes. My prize money was quite low on each occasion as I did not knock many players out (4 & 1 respectively, if I remember correctly). On a couple occasions, I have made the money only to receive less money than my entry fee. In a game last night, I finished 17th out of 163 (top 20 paid). Entry fee was £10, but I only won about £7.50 because I failed to knock any players out.

I may try other tournaments at William Hill instead for now. However, it could just be the nature of the Headhunter tournaments themselves that are causing me to have the good finishes (i.e. players playing more recklessly). We'll see!