donk or not to donk

what is a donky?

Definition: If a poker player is called a 'donkey,' he's a bad player who makes blatantly bad poker plays. A weak player.

Donkey is also shortened to "donk" by many players to announce that they're playing badly or planning to, as in "I'm going to donk it up tonight."


Example:
Last time I was at the card room, I got a table full of donkeys -- no one knew how to play at all.



taken off of: http://poker.about.com/od/pokerglossary/g/donkey.htm

i say person who play all cards til river, and hope to bingo with a flush or straght. But not always bad to play like a donk in net poker

^It's always bad to play like a donk, period.

^ +1

if the other guy is a hyper loose aggressive player though, it may not be so bad to play like a donk. Sometimes, medium pair is enough to take it down. Depends on how the other guy has played. At micro stakes, the hyper aggressive guys generally aren't tricky enough to suddenly switch to tight.

I wouldn't take unnessary risks until I have seen the guy show down with weak hands though.

Last night, this guy shoved $5 into a 25c pot. I had a 7 high straight, but because the board was x4567, and I had two threes, he COULD have had the 8 and was looking to seem like he was bluffing. So I decided to fold. If he had a 3, I might actually end up losing money from a split pot depending on the rake.

Another time though, I was pretty sure the other guy was full of shit when he reraised me on the turn, so I reraised him all in with only 44 with KK82 on the board, and sure enough, I was right, he was semi-bluffing a 94 suited flush draw. But that really depends on the situation. Normally, I wouldn't do that unless I didn't have much left and I was quite sure he had nothing. Now that's a donk shove, but if I played according to the book, I lose that pot.