TPTK against a confusing donk.

[Galapogos]

Villian is a 78/0 donk over about 50 hands or so. He has no real betting patterns that make sense to me. Basically he's probably just a n00b doing what feels like at good idea at the time. He would call down in position with a really good hands sometimes or bet with it. A raise here would basically commit me to call a river push against this guy.


Texas Hold'em $1-$1 NL (Real Money), #148,570,323
Table Carmel, 4 Apr 2007 4:15 PM ET

Seat 1: alex05lama ($251.50 in chips)
Seat 2: Galapogos [ A,K] ($99 in chips)
Seat 6: petterzen ($165.05 in chips)
Seat 7: Bjorn-Selv ($50.55 in chips)
Seat 10: hassovon ($117.20 in chips)

Antes/Blinds
Bjorn-Selv posts blind ($0.50), hassovon posts blind ($1).

Pre-Flop
alex05lama calls $1, Galapogos bets $5, petterzen calls $5, Bjorn-Selv folds, hassovon folds, alex05lama calls $4.

Flop [board cards 5,4,K ]
alex05lama checks, Galapogos bets $12, petterzen calls $12, alex05lama calls $12.

Turn [board cards 5,4,K,5 ]
alex05lama bets $4.50, Galapogos calls $4.50, petterzen calls $4.50.

River [board cards 5,4,K,5,7 ]
alex05lama bets $12, Galapogos calls $12, petterzen folds


I hate playing this weak against this type of player but he was on one hell of a heater. Check out the hand he stacked me deep with! Please no comments on how I played this hand, I played it in an unstandard way for an unstandard player (Warning, bad beat post!)

Texas Hold'em $1-$1 NL (Real Money), #148,665,490
Table Carmel, 4 Apr 2007 4:35 PM ET

Seat 1: alex05lama ($195.55 in chips)
Seat 2: Galapogos [ T, T] ($189.70 in chips)
Seat 5: ubergawd ($95.50 in chips)
Seat 6: petterzen ($104.75 in chips)
Seat 7: Del_Torro x ($87.50 in chips)

Antes/Blinds
Galapogos posts blind ($0.50), ubergawd posts blind ($1).

Pre-Flop
petterzen calls $1, Del_Torro x folds, alex05lama calls $1, Galapogos calls $0.50, ubergawd checks.

Flop [board cards 8,7,7 ]
Galapogos bets $3, ubergawd folds, petterzen folds, alex05lama calls $3.

Turn [board cards 8,7,7,T ]
Galapogos bets $9, alex05lama calls $9.

River [board cards 8,7,7,T,6 ]
Galapogos bets $176.70 and is all-in, alex05lama calls $176.70

SHOWDOWN
Galapogos shows [ 10S,10D ]
alex05lama shows [ 7H,7C ]
alex05lama wins $378.40

alex05lama: thanks donk!

lol badbeataments

[zenbitz]

1st hand is kinda a tough spot.
He donks the turn - meaning 3 things:
1) he has nothing and hopes you will tell him to go away or let him show down cheap
2) he has a monster and hopes you will raise him/call drawing dead
3) he is semi-bluffing with no FE (setting the bet size).

Only in the 3rd case do you want to raise the turn for value. If it was heads up I think calling down is fine - I don't think he has a KQ type hand he is going to get stacked on. With the 3rd guy in and probably drawing, maybe a raise to ~pot is best.

It's close though - he kinda looks like he has a 5, so showing down cheap is OK.

[givememyleg]

I like raising the turn because he's a donk and I don't want to let petterzen chase the flush for next to nothing.

Really is it ever bad to stack off with TPTK to a donk?