Probably a clueless player who saw his high equity on the turn and that he had a straight. That is obviously the worst of several ways you could play it. Not sure if he was ever an expert poker player.Ī6 hand, bet/3-betting river on T987 board. Mason was really good at getting good authors and organizing their books well. Anyone can see there is a less than a 10^-100 chance of it happening by random. If it requires statistical analysis, and he has that expertise, why not provide an analysis.
It has a chapter on how to spot cheaters, but he can't spot the most obvious cheating imaginable here. Really negative advertisement for his book. Finally, someone who is adding real value to this thread and not some jokers shilling some useless book or GG sponsored player acting like maybe nothing is going on here.