Just so everyone knows (not that my anonymous reputation has much weight anymore), I am playing in this hand. I am just watching and flabbergasted that the table loves "turtle" so much. But I did think it was an interesting hand from turtle's perspective. Up until the fold on the river, I don't think he played it poorly. I just think he should have shoved - but it's the river part that makes this hand worthwhile to discuss

Winky makes an interesting analysis. Not sure it is because he already read the results, but that what he said is spot on. Donkey butchered the hand so bad by not betting the flop, that he allowed fish to get there, then just compounded his tilt by raising fish's bet rather than tucking tail and folding. And his comments were immediate after seeing the bet and fish's push.

Turtle did play the hand poorly, just not terribly, until he folded the turn, that is. Donkey's hand was just screaming KJ, or 88. This is exactly what most decent hand readers would conclude from your description as well.

As to the table thinking Turtle made a great fold on his QT read, you really need to understand just how good this is for you. It says that they either didn't know Fish had QT, or that they didn't believe their own read. It also means that no one had the first clue as to what the donkey had.