Originally Posted by djzcko

OK, I've been playing mostly in Poker Room $25NL lately to clear a new bonus. I have not been doing real well (4.5PTBB/100) but most of that has been due to negative variance. I have lost my stack 3x on some frickin' donk calling my 2/3 pot bets all the way to the river and then hitting a #&$%^#&$^# gutshot str8 (what they were calling me down with wasn't even in the range of hands I put them on so I lost my stack). Unbelievable. Yeah, you want donks to do that, but c'mon the Poker Gods hate me on that site. I have digressed. What I wanted to post about is a move I get quite often on Poker Room that I saw rarely on other sites (Poker Stars, Party, Paradise). Here is the scenario. Typically I have AK or AQ and I hit TPTK on the flop. In each case (now that I think about it) I am OOP with 1-2 other callers. I fire out a 2/3 pot sized bet all the way to the river and get smooth called by the button or CO. And then my 2/3 pot bet gets raised HUGE on the river every frickin time (at least 3x). I know the general rule is "you are beat" and I have folded all of them except the most recent one because I got sick of this abuse and didn't care. Turns out the guy had nothing and I took down a huge pot. So, I was wondering if you guys have seen this move a lot and whether is it worth calling these bets down or did I just so happen to catch the one guy who was bluffing...thoughts?

Originally Posted by Miffed22001

pokerroom is full of donks
Raise more preflop and then bet hard.
They suck awfully.
Sounds like my expereince so do as piratepeaty suggests.

Originally Posted by djzcko

Here is the scenario. Typically I have AK or AQ and I hit TPTK on the flop. In each case (now that I think about it) I am OOP with 1-2 other callers. I fire out a 2/3 pot sized bet all the way to the river and get smooth called by the button or CO. And then my 2/3 pot bet gets raised HUGE on the river every frickin time (at least 3x).

Originally Posted by strawman

I've found myself in this position many times. This past week I've been grinding away at proom and building my stack on small pots only to watch it disappear when I flop a strong hand (trips or better). I've shown a few hands on here and have been working harder on making sure I'm making good plays so I have a better understanding of whether it is me, them, or variance. If I'm playing bad it's not the variance and the past few days I've actually been playing quite well but still managed to lose over 2 1/2 buy-ins the other day.

I've been dropping by-ins to runner-runner and two on the flop that complete on the river flushes. My usuall scenario has been a 6xBB raise preflop, hit a set and get in a pot-sized or more re-raise. Overbet the turn. When the third suite hits the river if I bet my opponent goes all in. If I check my opponent goes all in. I've been running into a number of Axs and a few any two will do.

This line is befuddling me because I am seeing a number of people use it so it's been hard for me to get a read. I'm 1 for 4 on those the last couple of days. My only saving grace is that as I work on improving my ring game, the $5 SNG's are pretty soft and I can replenish my bankroll through those.