[A_C_Slater]

I watched the telecast live on PPV. At the start of that table they stated that Yang had been playing very cautiously and nitty, almost weak-tight from 27 players on down. He did open raise a few hands before this one, but no showdowns he could have just been getting good hands.

In this spot Childs opens UTG and Yang reraises UTG+1. Against a typical opponent in a full ring game this is AA/KK only. Given Childs image of Yang at the time his fold is not bad. If anything his only mistake is bet/folding flop instead of check/folding flop.

I am not sure if he was getting set odds to call preflop, but if not I would have mucked it right there. Of course it turns out Yang used his previous image to his advantage and ran the table over, so give him some credit for that. But AT THE TIME given his image, Childs fold was not as absurd as it seems, if you had watched the telecast.