Quote Originally Posted by Vrax
That's why it's good to go for showdown if you hit the piece of the flop, think you are ahead and opponent is passive. You may try even to get some value against the draw and show it down if it misses. Showdown after has more "tilting power" than showing after winning by default.
Yep.. I'll think "donk" only about opponents who do not show their cards voluntarily but I get to see their crappy play in a showdown. Another, although rare, case is when a guy shows his crap hands.. and keeps doing it! Ofcourse this is so -EV it's not really worth it. Seeing a by-the-book player bluff once and then show, even on 20NL, isn't too uncommon.. and pretty transparant imho.

When I want to convince the room I'm a donk, a thing I am thinking about doing is, say you get AQ.. then raise 10BB. Everyone folds, then show. Now the more aware players will probably be thinking "lol this idiot raises his 'good hands' and also thinks AQ is so great?!" It's likely to give me action when I raise my AA the normal 4BB-5BB.

Not sure though, but this kind of behavior is what I see the REAL donks do (raise their "good hands" hard and then show) so I think it's better to emulate that, rather than using the more obvious "good player deception tricks"..


It's atleast a thing I've had some success with.. to play "real donk style", but reverse. Say I hit a set on the flop. I raise normal. Aware player calls with TP or two pair. Now I actually slow down in betting, and bet weak - typical donk style when they realize their bluff fails. He calls. Then by the river I think a while then raise over the pot.. again typical donk bluff-play when they have nothing. The aware players ALWAYS call this