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Originally Posted by GamblinRick
Look at some of the multi-way pots and think about it this way. You can't just know that you're behind in a four-way pot and still make the plays he makes. You don't know how far behind you are, if your opponents will fold to a scare card, if a flush card hits them or you can represent it, etc. etc. He knows all that information all the time.
I think his phone was either receiving messages from someone with full holecard info, or it's directly connected to the same computer as the one used for streaming. Note that the equities shown on the stream graphics take account of dead cards, so there are spots where he has a really bad hand in general terms, but his equity is much higher than expected, and other players with "good-looking hands" are often drawing almost dead because of other players' folded cards or blockers. I think he might have access to the (pre-flop) equities of everyone's hands.
e.g. In the 95o hand, he appeared to know the guy with 64s picked up a gutter on the turn - the mic picked him up saying "Oh ****!" - even though the 64s was never tabled. With unknown folded cards, 64s and 95o run quite close in equity, and 95o is absolutely terrible multiway (64s ain't too bad), but there was a six and two fours folded pre, so the screen showed 95o with much more equity than it "should have" had.)
Not that he needs to know the equities, as he's a redline warrior that gets most of EV from ridiculously successful superuser bluffs.