Thursday, August 11, 2011

Donk detection

One of the great things about poker is the wealth of poker lingo that exists. It can be colorful, humorous, politically incorrect, or pejorative. Sometimes, it can be all of these at once. One of the terms on the pejorative side is donkey, or donk for short. A donk is someone who plays idiotically, typically by betting in an indiscriminate manner. Players who aren't donks in general can be donks at times, such as by going on tilt or heeding the imp of the perverse. I'm not a donk, but have played like one now and then.

Last night, one of my opponents was either a donk or playing like one. He kept betting the pot hand after hand; statistically, it's highly improbable that he had a strong hand more than half of the time. He'd repeat a pattern of hitting the felt, reupping for the minimum starting amount ($12K), hitting the felt again, reupping, etc. Lather, rinse, repeat. For a while I folded like a good boy, but I heeded a double hunch when he bet the pot one time too many; I had a good feeling about my 9 6 offsuit, and felt sure he was bluffing. Sure enough, my two pair of nines and sixes bet his pair of nines for a pot worth $41,600. I lived off that for the remainder of the session.

During current Hold'em session you were dealt 85 hands and saw flop:
- 12 out of 12 times while in big blind (100%)
- 8 out of 10 times while in small blind (80%)
- 41 out of 63 times in other positions (65%)
- a total of 61 out of 85 (71%)
Pots won at showdown - 7 of 11 (63%)
Pots won without showdown - 3

delta: $21,800
balance: $1,852,187

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