Instructions from the Rail

Your four to the flush with the nut flush draw and your opponent pushes all in with one card to come. Your big stack and have him way covered. Your pot odds are 5:1, and your chances of hitting your flush is 4:1. Although the odds are not in favor, calling his bet doesn't hurt your stack and if you win you knock the opponent out. When you look at the standings you notice this player is on the bubble. Knock him out and it's guaranteed money. You call and nail your flush.

In the end, good call right? You hit your hand and now your guaranteed money. You feel good about your decision and the slight risk paid off. People around the table comment you, "Nice call", "Nice catch". Overall you feel pretty good about your call and then it happens. The mad, crazed, busted out player goes off on you calling you spewing out every "poker" insult under the sun. He criticize your play like a mini Phil Hellmuth and doesn't stop. Just keeps going, and going, and going....

A question if you will; don't you find it mildly ironic that people who normally call players "donks", or other forms of loosing/amateur comments are from those who are sitting on the rail? I mean, I just don't get it. Here is a guy who I just busted out of a game and he is calling someone else the donk. The best is when you know the player has no idea that the comments he is using to describe you fit him like a glove.

A great example of this happen recently while I was playing a NL Ring game on Absolute Poker.

Everyone either folds or limps to a guy who raises 4x the BB (Player 1), and he gets one call (Player 2).
The flop comes down Q84 of hearts.
Player 1 fires a pot size bet and he gets called.
The turn brings a King of hearts.
Player 1 bets the pot once again, and gets called.
The river is a Jack of clubs.
Player 1 fires the pot once more, and without hesitation, Player 2 moves all in. Player 1 calls. Player 2 looses and goes "on tilt". He curses his opponent's play to no end.

So what did they have?

Player 1 had AT of hearts
Player 2 had KJ off suite, no hearts.

Player 2 makes a comment saying, "this site is rigged, they gave me two runners just for me to push all in" He further commented that his opponent played the hand completely wrong and should have trapped with the nut flush draw.

So let me recap this for you so your not confused or think you misread something:

A guy with AT of hearts bets 4x the BB and is called. He flops the nut flush and bets the pot. Unusual but it worked, he got called. The turn brings a fourth heart Player 1 bets and Player 2 called this rather large bet with a pair of Kings, no hearts, with four to the flush on the board. Player 1 can't be any more obvious that he had the flush when he bet the again on the river; but yet his opponent now making two pair, still with no hearts, pushes all in. Of course Player 1 calls, what else he going to do with the nuts? Then yes, Player 2 criticizes Player 1's play and calls him a donk, then blames the site for cheating him out of his money with two runners!

Player 2's justification for his comments was that Player 1 was betting too high to have the flush, he thought he would have slow played it. But any heart would have beat him on the Turn, his hand couldn't have said "I'm worthless" any louder. Truly amazing ignorance if you ask me.

So what ever happen to Player 2? He ended up loosing the rest of his money on the very next hand. He pushed all in for a rather large amount with AT os. Someone thinking he was on tilt called with A6. The board showed three more 6s and the fireworks began once again. The hand he lost to he gets dealt off suite, and looses to a lesser hand. Great isn't it?