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- Hey everyone, this is Uri Peleg,
and today I'm gonna be making
a video about donk betting.
What to do when someone
donk bets against you,
what's the issue with donk betting,
and how you can make money and react
when facing this situation.
- With all of them I could
have been like all in,
and like, just have cleaned out the table.
- [Poker Player] God, I
really hope it's true.
I don't care about all
this money that's gone.
- I'm like the banker and every
part I have to play, right?
Test the best hand.
Obviously, right, it's normal.
Someone has to test the hand.
It's like the banker in a casino.
You have the banker and someone takes you.
Spins it.
Ah, that's a nice flop.
- I was just about to cbet that, you donk.
What are you doing?
Now this is a very common
reaction when people donk bet.
We know they not supposed to be doing it.
And we know it's a mistake, and
we should be happy about it.
But really, in practice,
it's not always very clear
what to do and how to take advantage
of this mistake that they're making.
People who donk bet,
generally fall into one of two archetypes.
They're either way too straight forward
and just donk betting when
they have something good.
Or they're some kind of degenerate,
aggressive guy, who
tries to win every part.
And they're just trying to win,
they're donk betting range is really weak.
Against either of these it's
not too difficult to play.
But let me explain a bit
about the broader picture.
Pre-flop raisers range
is generally stronger,
that's the issue with donk
betting and why's this an issue?
Imagine that the pre-flop raiser
has 30 percent strong hands
and 70 percent weak hands,
and the donk better, or the caller,
has 20 percent strong hands
and 80 percent weak hands.
When you construct a donk betting range,
you can make it like 20,
80 like your entire range,
but then you just sending
an ill equipped soldier
to the battle and his
just gonna get slaughtered
against a stronger range, right.
You just putting in
money with weaker hands.
Or you could make a donk
betting range that has
more than 30 percent strong hands
and then your donk betting
range will do fine,
but your tracking range
is left defenseless.
You've left your flank unprotected
and it's gonna get slaughtered.
This kind of explains why donk betters
often fall into on of
these two categories.
Where either their donk
betting range is trash
and then you just enjoy the free money
and don't worry about it too much,
or the guy's too straightforward
and then when he donks
you need to be careful,
but whenever he checks you're
basically gonna win a pot.
But what if you don't know?
What if you against someone
who's more a dangerous,
unpredictable, and experienced,
and is capable of mixing
it up in these spots?
- Probably if you raise you
gonna get me off this one.
But you have to have the heart
to raise it and raise it big.
Don't just call, calling is stupid.
Calling might force me to check.
Now it's a good time to move all in.
It's cool to move all in
and if I don't have it, I'm gonna fold.
- Man Tony G just--
- But if I have it--
- Keeps hitting.
- I might hit the river though.
He's got a big hand there, I'm stuffed.
- He's got aces.
- I know I can't win.
Bring a scary card, bring
like a five of hearts,
six of hearts, seven of
hearts, bring a scary card.
Hearts, heart!
All in.
- Call.
- Four.
- You have a four.
- Of course
- You have a four?
- Have a four I'm the best.
What do you think I play with.
Give me the money.
Bring him a million.
So, some players are
capable of mixing it up.
You're not gonna know who
exactly you up against.
Maybe he's very tight one hand
and then he changes it up the next one.
How do you handle these players?
Like we said, when someone donk bets
it's a mistake we should
be able to punish them,
but what do we don't if
we don't have any reads?
This is what I'm gonna try to explain
to you guys in the next video.
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