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So softplay HU is allowed. Are there any implications to this for the other players at the table?
There are a few discussions about this from about a year ago. iirc, at stars, they say that if a hand is HU, softplay is fine. There are a lot of counter arguments for why this is not fine. The soft play that was being discussed at the time was just checking it down when it got heads up, only between certain players of course. (So out of the pool of players, several agreed that if they were ever HU in a hand they would just check it down). Some of the problems with that are that it looks really bad dissuading any trust in the game and that it IS really bad in that it changes strategy and is tantamount to collusion because players know they can see the river for free if it gets HU with someone else in their clique, and it is more likely to get HU if they call a bet (or raise a bet) by someone in their clique.
In this case, I don't know what to make of the hand. Not raising the river here looks like a clear mistake, but that doesn't necessarily mean it is a softplay.
Before the river, I can certainly see why adz would have this line in his arsenal. If this isn't part of a bigger pattern of play, you can't make anything of this hand. Everyone makes mistakes and everyone sees monsters under the bed from time to time. About the only thing we know is it was not likely a misclick since roman talked to him about the hand.