what is donking someone?

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what is really donking someone? alot of players say they got donked just cause they lost. So is it donking to call a hand that you are slightly behind
 
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It can mean several things, we need context. Please use it in a sentence.
 
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I always considered donking to mean preflop shoving a huge number of BB with a crap hand like J8o and cracking somebody's Aces with it. I guess everybody has a different definition, idk.
 
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its a pretty clear question



You can barely write a coherent post, so no, it isn't a clear question.

You could either mean a donk bet, or a donk player
 
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Donk bet usually mean betting post flop without having a preflop initiative.

Example btn opens 3bb, BB cals, post flop bb bets...

But being a donk usually means being a bad poker player and making bad decisions. donk bets, over bets, overshoves, min raise, min bet, all kind a carp plays.

Imo donk is more used in tournament world, at cash tables bad players are called fishes but that just my point of view... I like to say when i get kicked out of the tourney that i donked myself out, meaning that i have made bad play that costed me my tourney life...

I have never called bad player a donk or a fish no matter the outcome of the hand, bad players are my most favorite type of players and i would love to see more of them every day...
 
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what is really donking someone? alot of players say they got donked just cause they lost.
I would think that "got donked" means they lost to a player who didn't have odds to make the call, did anyway, and won...
...basically meaning that if that player does that all the time,
they'd be spewing money but in this one small sample it paid off for them
 
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I called myself a donk on here one time, because I played in a tourny that day and I played like a donk and got what a donk usually gets in the end, knocked out of the tourny early, and that is what happened to me. So I went back to playing my game the next day, and using the advice I receive here.
 
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i think today i truely got donked... lol..
i had kk raised 4bbs and i was the small blind
the bb calls the flop comes 10,j,Q
a raised half pot which was half my stack expecting a fold since we were near the bubble and he snap shoves.. i almost folded but i glanced to see that we just got in the money so finally i called my now very small stack to see the guy had 88
turn was another ten
river was an 8 wow..
 
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I always thought a donk bet was betting into the pre-flop raiser.
 
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Hi. I would say that people tend to use the "Donk" expression when they get beaten in a hand. I can see your point that your KK got beat but if you are close to the bubble in any tourney you must expect different plays.

A lot of people tighten up just hoping to make the money, but some are aiming for the top of the money so they try to take advantage of people tightening up. I would imagine that your opponent was hoping you would fold? Or perhaps he was on tilt? Or he was hoping that you had a small pair and was trying to frighten you off, being so close to the bubble? There are many reasons why he could have played the way he did and to be honest I would have probably played the same as you or pushed all in to frighten him off. You would probably win in this situation 9 times out of 10, but just unlucky this time.

You must just put this down to experience and try and remember him for next time? Or put a note next to his name to remind yourself about him.

The donk expression I would imagine comes from playing like a "Donkey" or "Ass". In other words playing badly. Gl to you in the future..........:D :D :D
 
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Getting donked is when all your Ass-ets are shipped over to some idiot who got lucky.
 
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and if I am the idiot who got lucky...I'm sorry.
 
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donking someone= stick at the pot like a donk, and never being chased out of pot regardless of amount of betting size.

think this comes from Donkey
Donkey is never go away if want to stay.
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A donk, in my opinion, is that player who bets with nothing and takes a big fish or that player that bets to see the pot with a short hand and after see the flop and gets nothing he continues to bet (bluffing) and normally gets catched.
 
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AA VS 72 . AA SHOVES PREFLOP . 72 CALLS AND WIN . THATS DONKING
 
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I have always understood the term donk to be short for donkey, and in poker to refer to jackass that is too stubborn (like a donkey) to release their hand when they should know that they are behind. The term getting donked or being donked, I would think, would refer to a situation in which a player being behind, and as someone else mentioned above, is not getting the right price to make the call, does so anyway and then sucks out on you.

In heavystack's example, I can't fault the villain for calling a pre-flop raise with pocket 8s. But when the flop comes 10-J-Q, I would think that villain would have to consider the kinds of hands that his opponent might have raised with. Considering the numerous combinations of cards from A-K down to A-10, K-Q to K-10, Q-J, Q-10, 10-J, or any hand with a 10, J or Q in it, he probably should have come to the realization that he was, more than likely, behind. So for him to make the call, I assume hoping for a 9 to give him a straight, would have been a donk call. For him to come over the top for all his chips was pretty much a donk a bet, considering that pretty much most of a lot of player's raising range (mine for sure) would not only have most likely put villain behind a bigger pair on the flop, but also given his opponent lots of bigger straight possibilities. In fact, we know that villain actually only had two outs and less than a 10% chance of winning the hand. The villain wouldn't know this for sure, but more than likely never slowed down to even consider the possibility. That is what makes donks donks. They don't try to put their opponents on hands, or see much of anything other than their own hands. So when villain hits the 8 to make a set on the river, I would definitely say that yes, heavystack, you got donked there.
 
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There are a lot of meanings of this word in different languages.
 
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