Drawing for the Gutshot

At the bigger of the local home games I go to, it is popular among a certain breed of player (from here forward known as, the donk) to continue to draw at a gutshot straight, pretty much regardless of the price. I’ve seen several pots where a big hand got decimated by these players hitting their 4 outer on the river and getting paid off because you can’t see it coming, but more often you see these players bust night after night after night.
The logic these players always offer when people say, “Really? A gutshot?” is: “Well, I only needed …read more