An Oracle on the Rail
Andrulis began to stand up, but a friend behind him said, "Sit down. Sit down. You will win this."
"How can you know?" asked Andrulis, half-amused, half-frustrated.
And the flop was no fun at all for the at-risk player. The appeared right in the window on a flop of . Andrulis slid his chair under the table and began to turn away just as a timely appeared on the turn! The fortune-teller on the rail was right as the two-outer brought life back to Andrulis, needing to fade just a few outs now to double.
When the river blanked off with the , he did just that, working his stack back to about 340,000.