Inside the brain of a donk

[kingsnthahole]

How does one read a donkey? How do you play against a donkey? How do deal with losing to a donkey? These are 3 of the many questions i have been asking myself for the past 5 months. I have watched my acct go from well over 50(all free money i earned on this site) all the way down to nothing. With the schedule i work, MTT mostly dont work out for me unless it's the weekend, so i play cash tables. It feels like there has been an influx of "Fretards"(f'n retards) from the god awful site Full Tilt, to the becoming god awful carbon poker. I have people calling me down with bottom pair, ON THE REGULAR, and hitting their 2 outer or their two pair on the river. I have people calling pot sized bets with 2 unders and a gutshot straight draw and HITTING. People calling down with Ace hi and 3 to a flush and runner runnering a flush on me. The thing that really bothers me is that we are all solid poker players here at this site. Why can't we play like a donkey and hit EVERY FN TIME? Is it just online poker? Is it my percentages evening out?(I highly doubt that because my biggest run was this summer for 2 months and only $500) I'm starting to feel like i might as well just start playing long ball, doyle brunson style and getting my money in preflop on a gamble. Some people think that what chris moneymaker has done to this game is the greatest thing in poker, but i think it is the worst. People that have NO BUSINESS playing poker, want to be a fn champion. How do you play against these people? Maybe i need to give online poker a rest and just play live. I dunno, but i'm starting to sit here and think to myself alot fo times, "why do i waste my time playing these fat retards in a game that can't be won, but only played." I'd have alot more fun slappin the skin flute. I can't deal with the pointlessness of playin the lower limits anymore, so, my only game that i play anymore will be the bap. Period. No more freerolls(unless ofcourse they are NDN sponsored) No more 2-5$ MTT's, no more wasting my important time for this stupid-@$$ online poker.

[kingsnthahole]

PS the thing that sparked this was me potting my AK preflop and a snap call from a retard with chips, flop A 8 T. I bet 3/4 pot, snap call. turn 3 putting a flush draw on board. I bet pot(top pair and a flush draw). River 8. i check, thinking i'm good and ready to call his bet. He shoves and i call, and he called all the way with Q 8 offsuit. BOTTOM PAIR on the flop, bottom pair on the turn, and whammy, two outer. I dont get it?

[eejit101]

The above hand was a 5 outer, but close, and he didnt have bottom pair on the turn.

Also - your point about everyone being "solid" isnt true either.

However, you should move to pokerstars or cake for cash games, and you should definatly take 2 weeks away from poker.

[TerpZone]

This is why I VERY rarely deposit online... I've been playing, up until I lost it all last night, on a $15 deposit and NDNPT winnings for over a month for hours a day. I generally try to stick to real games when my actual money is in use. Unfortunately there are donks in live games too.

[ffcowboy76]

Part of your problem is the percentages evening out and part could be from your table image. I've never played a hand with you, that I know of, but something to consider is what your image is. How many hands do you play a round? How often do you raise preflop? What hands do you raise with and showdown with?

If I know you are on a big hand and I have a weaker one, I might call to the river looking for the long shot draw because I know I will take everything in your stack. This play has to cost little vs the size of your stack to make it profitable, but I've watched many people do it.

Playing too few hands is almost as bad as playing too many hands in a poker world ruled by trackers and other information systems. This will narrow the range of hands you could have more and more. Personally speaking I would rather play against the tightest players around because they are easy to put on a hand. The loose ones are harder to put on a hand because of the expanded range they could be playing.

Just something to consider when playing cash game.

[eejit101]

I have yet to disagree with anything cowboy has written.