Donkey?

#1 26th March 2008, 8:23 PM

I constantly here this term being said at tables, usually when a person is upset. But can't find the term in any poker glossary. Could someone please enlighten me?

#2 26th March 2008, 8:24 PM

in short it is a bad player, just someone who makes questionable plays, getting lucky and sucking out on you .. most of the time
im a donkey btw

#3 26th March 2008, 8:36 PM

Quite often you find that bad poker players accuse virtually all the other players in the world of being donkeys or fish, and they don't actually seem to realise that it is their own bad play which creates many of their problems.

#4 26th March 2008, 9:41 PM

But, if you have a big stack, sometimes you can take away a donkey's effectiveness

#5 26th March 2008, 9:42 PM

Haha great picture to go with the comment!

#6 26th March 2008, 10:26 PM

thank u all for the responses, I am now enlightened to the topic of "donkeyism"

#7 26th March 2008, 10:34 PM

That Donkey sure is riding high!!!!!!

#8 26th March 2008, 10:35 PM

There is another side of the issue. Donkeys are just creative players who see possibilites where other see none.

#9 27th March 2008, 5:42 AM

love that pic! perfect comment for the pic also

#10 27th March 2008, 4:46 PM

Here is the t-shirt I have on today:

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#11 27th March 2008, 6:03 PM

and working hard at it too!

#12 27th March 2008, 11:33 PM

Funny stuff!!!!LMAO

#13 28th March 2008, 1:28 AM

A donkey is someone who took the money that was rightfully yours when you were dealt a good starting hand.

By law, if you wait for a good starting hand and are dealt one, you are entitled to profit on the hand. A donkey is someone who doesn't respect that and tries (sometimes succeeding) to hit trips on his 4/2 sooooted.

#14 28th March 2008, 12:59 PM

Haha love that T-shirt AG, was it a custom design or off the shelf?

#15 28th March 2008, 1:16 PM

A player who sees over 45% of the flops is a donkey.........

Ore if a tight player reraises me allin with a bad hand
(he too is a donkey)

Donk is my most used player note..And this note have only been wrong 2 times.

#16 28th March 2008, 3:29 PM

fish is the american term for donk and donk is australian imho both mean the same thing fish and shark seem more efficient as you have both ends of the spectrum . Besides, who wants to eat a donkey? and what could? SHARKS gobbling up fishies is better so lets ban the word DONK and keep it evolutionary with the weak being eaten by the strong,
donkeys are sterile too so its a cruder insult .....wait a minute, im not biologist/genetecist....
DONK IS BAD.............SHARK IS GOOD...................END OF STORY

#17 28th March 2008, 5:11 PM

IMHO
A DONK is someone who beats you with a poor hand.
A FISH is someone You beat when he has a poor hand.

#18 28th March 2008, 5:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SHIBDOGIAN

fish is the american term for donk and donk is australian imho both mean the same thing fish and shark seem more efficient as you have both ends of the spectrum . Besides, who wants to eat a donkey? and what could? SHARKS gobbling up fishies is better so lets ban the word DONK and keep it evolutionary with the weak being eaten by the strong,
donkeys are sterile too so its a cruder insult .....wait a minute, im not biologist/genetecist....
DONK IS BAD.............SHARK IS GOOD...................END OF STORY

Donkeys are NOT sterile! Your thinking of Mules which are donkeys sired
to mares!

#19 28th March 2008, 5:54 PM

Whew, Glad I'm not sterile!!

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