Phil "OMGClayAiken" Galfond wrote a blog entry after the tenth episode of HSP season 6 aired on GSN. Galfond writes mostly about the hand he played against Eli Elezra to his BluefirePoker.com blog.
"Once Eli raises the ATxdd flop, I put him on either a bluff (87cc, KQss, etc) or AT, TT, maaayyyybe 22, maaaaaybe AK/AQ, and maaaaaaybe Axdd. The maybe's are all pretty rare. He doesn't have enough bluff combos in his range to make a shove profitable" Galfond writes in his blog and continues: "If I spike my diamond on the turn, I can c/c my stack off or just open shove. If I miss, I just c/f like I did".
"Am I sure that my call is the best play?... no. A fold may be best, depending on his exact range, and I haven't run the math on his hand combos and my implied odds and everything. I am positive that my play was better than shoving flop though. Everyone who 'knows' that I was in a shove or fold spot needs to work on thinking outside of the box and not just playing by the rules that outdated strategy books taught them", Galfond writes.
Watch the Q7dd hand below, starting from 5:25:
Read the full blog entry here!

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My 2 cents ,just a cope out answer "we should think outside the box"...It was a fold or shove spot..If It was a 1000$to 5k (total) pot he would of insta shoved ....I guess he tough too long about brinking and losing that kind of money.