Quote Originally Posted by surviva316
i'm not questioning the fold. i'm questioning the raise/fold. i don't see how reads could possibly affect the decision in this case. reads affect whether you make a hero call on the river or make a squeeze play or something like that. i doubt he value raised because he got a read that he had QJ and was going to flat a raise
See the range manipulation thread in ISF's blog. There are time when you can narrow villain's range to a group of hands where anything that beats you will raise, and anything you're ahead of calls/folds. If you can get villain to play this way, his cards are very much face up on the table. Probably has something to do with Bellande's instincts and how the parts of villain's range have to be played here.

There's a lot of history and metagame in these pro hands that can't be shown on TV. Besides, it looks cooler just to show the hands in isolation so it seems like the pros are reading souls or making huge mistakes.