Dinner Theater
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Things started off typically enough. Vanessa Selbst limped for 40,000 before the other remaining Vanessa, Vanessa Rousso, raised to 100,000. Selbst called.
The flop came ace-high with two hearts,
. Selbst checked and called a bet of 100,000, bringing the two women to a 
turn. Selbst checked again, prompting Rousso to move all in for 525,000."God, that card gave me so many outs," said Selbst. Rousso, for her part, said she didn't care whether or not Selbst called.
"I'm getting 2-to-1 here, I think I'm supposed to call," continued Selbst. She and Rousso traded more banter.
The other remaining table had already finished the last hand. Players were racking chips in preparation for a color-up during the dinner break. Jonathan Aguiar and Scott Seiver were about to leave the table when Aguiar heard the table talk between the two Vanessas. He became livid.
"They're in a hand?" he asked incredulously. He was hopping mad that such talk was being allowed to go on, alleging that it was blatant collusion. Rousso was miffed and wanted to know what she'd done wrong; Selbst said nothing. Aguiar responded that they shouldn't be talking during the hand.
"You play poker for a living?" he shouted. "How do you not know that?" Seiver also got irate and backed up Aguiar.
"You know what?" said Selbst. "It doesn't matter." She folded her hand.
Rousso was unwilling to let the matter rest so easily. "I want to know what I did wrong," she said. A floor standing near the table told her that she wasn't allowed to talk unless play was heads-up. When Rousso responded that the hand was indeed heads-up, the floor said "No, heads-up in the tournament."
Rousso was dumbfounded and claimed never to have heard of such a thing. For his part, Aguiar had already blown out of the tournament room in a steam but Seiver was still racking up chips for the color-up. A second floor was summoned, who told Rousso that as long as she didn't reveal the contents of her hand, any table talk was allowed.
"Thank you!" said an indignant Rousso. She felt Aguiar and Seiver were completely out of line and were treating her "like s***". She said (and we're paraphrasing here) that she goes out of her way to be nice to people but that it happens at every tournament, that there is always someone who treats her very badly for no reason. She got right up in Seiver's face and started shouting at him.
"But where's the line?" Seiver responded. "Is it ok for you to say 'If you fold I'll give you 5% of my action?'" That only incensed Rousso further since none of that kind of talk was taking place at the table.
Rousso eventually stormed out of the room, leaving Seiver to rack the rest of his chips and complain that he wasn't sure how he could "always treat [Rousso] badly" since he'd "never met you before today."
Rousso returned to the ballroom twenty minutes later to speak with the floor staff. She wanted clarification that she and Selbst were within bounds. We'll watch her, Selbst, Seiver and Aguiar very carefully when they come back from dinner to see if anything further is said.