The Amazing Phil Galfond
Fifth street had been dealt, and the board included three sixes -- . Phil Galfond, sitting in the small blind, had 37,500 sitting in front of him. That bet appeared to exceed the amount in the pot full of scrambled lavender, blue, yellow and orange chips that sat between him and his opponent in middle position.
His opponent tanked for a couple of minutes, then finally called. Galfond flipped over for quad sixes, and his opponent mucked.
"You're amazing, Phil!" said the player sitting to his left. Subsequent talk suggested the remark referred both to Galfond's good fortune and to his having gotten big value on his quads.
Galfond has moved up to 316,000 now.