Donkey
Posted on | September 19, 2008 |
Poker Help: Donkey
A poker term for an extraordinarily bad card player. Somebody who makes extremely bad or thick headed poker plays. Often times a donkey is the player at the card table with the shortest stack.
General Behaviors of a donkey
There are different levels of donks. The following are common “strategies” of donks.
- Only looking at their own poker hand and the board cards and they making their decisions based only on that
- Cant let a decent hand go, nomatter what the circumstances are.
- Passive donks play aggressively when they have something
- Bluffing because they are angry or for their ego
- Some donks become calling stations when someone is playing like a maniac to try keep them honest
- Calling all the way to the showdown because they’re already in the hand
- Calling big raises with relatively little chance of winning
Category: Poker Player Types, Poker slang names/terms/lingo
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