Donk Story/Vent Thread (2 Viewers)

[PlayerADK]

Figured it would be fun to share your favorite stories (or vent frustration) with experiences in poor poker playing!

Let's hear your biggest "why the ****?" moments in poker plays!

 

[allforcharity]

You mean MY poor poker playing? Crikey, I could go on for hours....

 

[PlayerADK]

You mean MY poor poker playing? Crikey, I could go on for hours....

Haha let's hear them!

Currently upset over my AK vs his A-10 (he was short stacked ai preflop), flop KQJ ofc.

 

[Josh Kifer]

Not me, but I was playing 1/2 at a casino with a very close friend. Doing alright, when this drunk guy comes to the table and buys in for 300 and goes all in without even looking at his hand. I fold and immediately cash out. Just not my style or in the mood to donk battle this guy. He proceeds to do it every hand. If he wins, it's all in the next flop.... If he loses, reload 300. My good friend decides to stay and try and win some cash.

I go to my room, eat some food, walk back down and he's missing but everyone is staring at me like they are worried. Come to find out, about 20 min before, my friend gets Kings and calls his all in for a pile of cash. Guy flips over 8 4 off. Flop comes Q 5 2.... Turn is a 6, river is a 7....

Next morning, he wasn't a happy man....

 

[PlayerADK]

Not me, but I was playing 1/2 at a casino with a very close friend. Doing alright, when this drunk guy comes to the table and buys in for 300 and goes all in without even looking at his hand. I fold and immediately cash out. Just not my style or in the mood to donk battle this guy. He proceeds to do it every hand. If he wins, it's all in the next flop.... If he loses, reload 300. My good friend decides to stay and try and win some cash.

I go to my room, eat some food, walk back down and he's missing but everyone is staring at me like they are worried. Come to find out, about 20 min before, my friend gets Kings and calls his all in for a pile of cash. Guy flips over 8 4 off. Flop comes Q 5 2.... Turn is a 6, river is a 7....

Next morning, he wasn't a happy man....

Haha I've encountered this many times - I would have a hard time walking away from the table!

My biggest hate is when people called their suited gappers genuinely believing it's a good limp

3-5suited, etc

 

[JMC9389]

This one had me pretty mad for a few minutes, but I re-focused and ended up chopping as one of the two players left.

T10000 tournament. Seven handed. I'm 2nd to lowest chip count after having my top pair beat by two pair on the turn and river twice. I'm bleeding out and thinking I'm reloading soon anyway. I'm on the button and I look down and see pocket Aces. I figure that with about T3000 left I can recoup some of my chips, so I bet pot, which at the time was T1500 and half of my stack. Everyone else folds except for big blind (highest stack on the table at the time) that calls. Turn comes 10 10 2. I shove and BB snap calls with god damn 10 3 offsuit. Turn and river are bricks. That one left me steaming for an orbit before I collected myself and starting playing cards.

I don't think I would have gotten any callers if I shoved pre-flop. That one stung.

 

[toynoob]

Instead of "I" hate you can we do "hammer345" hates you?

 

[toynoob]

Instead of "I" hate you can we do "hammer345" hates you?

@FordPickup92 woops...

 

[FordPickup92]

@FordPickup92 woops...

No! You cant change now
I hate you too

 

[Mongoose]

Not me, but I was playing 1/2 at a casino with a very close friend. Doing alright, when this drunk guy comes to the table and buys in for 300 and goes all in without even looking at his hand. I fold and immediately cash out. Just not my style or in the mood to donk battle this guy. He proceeds to do it every hand. If he wins, it's all in the next flop.... If he loses, reload 300. My good friend decides to stay and try and win some cash.

I go to my room, eat some food, walk back down and he's missing but everyone is staring at me like they are worried. Come to find out, about 20 min before, my friend gets Kings and calls his all in for a pile of cash. Guy flips over 8 4 off. Flop comes Q 5 2.... Turn is a 6, river is a 7....

Next morning, he wasn't a happy man....

Use to play in a game with a player like this years ago. Not a poker player, a blind gambler. Would always get his money in the end (long term) but yeah they can suck out and hurt you at times.

 

[allforcharity]

All my pairs cracked last night. 'Nuff said.

 

[PlayerADK]

All my pairs cracked last night. 'Nuff said.

Same- my two pair on flop vs their set 4 times

 

[Gobbs]

Not me, but I was playing 1/2 at a casino with a very close friend. Doing alright, when this drunk guy comes to the table and buys in for 300 and goes all in without even looking at his hand. I fold and immediately cash out. Just not my style or in the mood to donk battle this guy. He proceeds to do it every hand. If he wins, it's all in the next flop.... If he loses, reload 300. My good friend decides to stay and try and win some cash.

I go to my room, eat some food, walk back down and he's missing but everyone is staring at me like they are worried. Come to find out, about 20 min before, my friend gets Kings and calls his all in for a pile of cash. Guy flips over 8 4 off. Flop comes Q 5 2.... Turn is a 6, river is a 7....

Next morning, he wasn't a happy man....

Playing against a player like that is a winning proposition, but you need to have the bankroll to withstand the variance and some sort of guarantee the gambler will stay for a while.

Still, over time, if you encounter enough of them...

 

[Josh Kifer]

Playing against a player like that is a winning proposition, but you need to have the bankroll to withstand the variance and some sort of guarantee the gambler will stay for a while.

Still, over time, if you encounter enough of them...

Yeah. I didn't have the bankroll to take a hit that night and survive. It was a social trip, not a grinding trip.

 

[JMC9389]

Variance caught up with me tonight after a pretty insane run over the course of the past six months in which I ended up in the black after every single session (n=7 or 8 games)

Just tonight alone, I:

Busted out another player on the third hand of the night after my boat beat their flush. And it went all downhill from there.

Very literally the next hand, I ended up with another boat that I rivered, and I gave back virtually all of my money back to the same player I just busted out the previous hand as their 10-7 boat beat my 7-5 boat.

Also lost to an ace high flush when I had a king high flush.

And last but not least, I went all in after I flopped a closed straight draw, and ended up losing to quad 5's.

A disappointing end to an otherwise mostly great year.

 

[Beakertwang]

@toynoob sucks at poker, but still beats me all the time.

 

[Anthony Martino]

One of the last tournaments I played I approached it with an ABR strategy (always be raising)

I was killing it, turned my 30k stack into 60k in the first three levels

Pickup those Aces and raise, two callers

Flop is

Checked to me, bet 3500 into 6k, one guy OOP calls

Turn and he donks a 6500 bet into me and has 12k behind, I ship

He starts saying "oh geez, the pot is so big, I know if I hit my card my hand will be good, plus there are still rebuys"

He eventually calls off his stack with and is promptly rewarded with a club on the river, HURR-DURR!

And this is one of many reasons I prefer cash games

 

[toynoob]

We don't know the blind levels but to me it looks like he was less than 10bb? Tournaments force plays you never or rarely see in cash games. Its definitely a different beast

 

[Seeking Alpha Social Club]

WSOP Main Event 2016:

I had a 1/10th stake in my buddy Mike and he runs into this on day 2.

Chip Stacks
Mike = 130k
Villain (V) = 90k

Preflop: Mike AA. Raises preflop and gets 1 caller.

Flop = A, rag, rag. No straight or flush possibility. Mike bets half the pot, and Villain calls.

Turn = K. Mike makes a pot sized bet, villain moves all in and Mike calls.

Mike shows AAA
Villain shows KKK and says, "that's what I put you on". The table erupted in laughter at the stupid comment.

River.... an f'n "K"

I may be wrong, but I don't think there is a runout worse than this (yes/no?). Villian needed those 2 cards to come on the turn and the river....and got both of them.

I was on the phone with my wife at the time and almost threw my phone at the wall because I was so pissed.

Now for the good news. Mike took his 45k and rallied back to $188k by the end of day 2. AND knocked the villain out of the tournament later in the day.

 

[HobokenNJ]

This still makes me a little upset thinking about it. Partly based on play on the table and partly based on me not watching my stack size.

We were down to the last five players in an online tournament where top four would get a $5 tournament ticket. Each player would receive the same thing. No benefit to being in first; no detriment to coming in fourth.

My chances looked good because one player was sitting out and was just about to blind out. Great, I thought.

I was first to act and had pocket queens; the sitting out player was in the big blind and was all-in. I limped. The remaining players called. I had assumed that we would all check down and all the best hand to take out the big blind. Well, I was wrong.

The flop included an ace and a kind, and the chip leader raised a significant amount. The other player on the table said something like, "What are you doing?" and folded. I folded too.

Neither player had an ace or a king (yes, I would've won). The big blind won with low pair. The chip leader had junk. Ugh.

A few orbits later, I made the mistake of limping (or raising) with Ace King--the details are fuzzy. I didn't win the pot.

After another orbit or two, I was blinded out. The sitting out player ended up with the tourney ticket. Ugh.

In retrospect, I probably should've just pushed the pocket queens, or folded. Assuming the other players would be cooperative (& be happy to win by blinding out the sitting out player) was a mistake.

 

[shorticus]

One of the last tournaments I played I approached it with an ABR strategy (always be raising)

I was killing it, turned my 30k stack into 60k in the first three levels

Pickup those Aces and raise, two callers

Flop is

Checked to me, bet 3500 into 6k, one guy OOP calls

Turn and he donks a 6500 bet into me and has 12k behind, I ship

He starts saying "oh geez, the pot is so big, I know if I hit my card my hand will be good, plus there are still rebuys"

He eventually calls off his stack with and is promptly rewarded with a club on the river, HURR-DURR!

And this is one of many reasons I prefer cash games

Why I hate rebuy tourneys.

 

[sheikh617]

I have a couple from my last two sessions at Encore. Just annoying stuff where you wonder "why me" lol. Mostly vent and not really donk related.

AK off UTG raise to $15, next player who almost raised every single one of my raises shoves for like $140. Folds around and I decided that I was sick of his shit and made the call. He says he has A/10 off. Feeling pretty good. Flop runs 10 high and I don't improve. Gross.....

QQ UTG+2 on a straddle pot. (1/3/6) raised bigger then usual to get the gross hands out of there, made it $25 to go. Two callers including BB and we go to the flop. J33. I am middle position, BB checks, I fire for $45. player after me folds and BB calls. Turn is 6. Adds a backdoor flush. I bet $60 and player calls. Definitely raised some alarms here. River is a 4 flush misses. He had about 100 behind and lead out with a shove. I felt like shit here and honestly in hindsight just from looking at the hand I can see getting away from this. In my head I said if he has KK or AA or somehow flopped a boat with JJ I'll just pay it off. I can get sticky with over pairs to the board. Didn't see many combinations of 3's making the call pre except pocket 3s and maybe A3 suited. Anywho I made the call and he had 8/3 off suit. I would have been fine with losing to any of the above hands because it "makes sense" or is "justifiable" to call pre flop. 8/3 thoooooo? Gosh, I wish there was more justice in this world lol.

 

[JMC9389]

I ran so fucking badly on Mavens tonight. Lost boat over boat twice. Lost having trips twice, and lost having a straight when villain nutted a flush on the river.

One hand towards the end of the night really got me. I'm in the small blind with AQo. I made it 3 BB's (cash game) preflop, I get three callers on a 7 handed table.

I get a dream flop of Q J J. I'm first to act and bet 1/3 pot. Two callers from that while the last folds. Turn is a 5. At this point I have roughly 50 BB's, so I shove. Both players call and they both turn over Q5. Another 5 comes out on the river. I get nothing while the other two split with boats. This was after I lost twice already having a boat and getting beat by a bigger boat. Ugh.

 

[BonScot]

Sitting in big blind on Friday night with my regular home game crew on pokerstars. Had and there was a raise and reraise. Instead of folding the stupid overly sensitive touchpad hit “call” (although the beers might have had something to do with it). I swore at my laptop as that was half my stack flushed down the toilet.

Flop comes ... One guy had AK and another QQ with a K landing on the turn.

Needless to say my popularity with the group has never been so high and they all congratulated me on my superior skillz

 

[boltonguy]

Last night on Ignition had some doozies like boat over boat, etc but this was the most expensive one: AK in MP. Facing a limper in UTG I bump it to 4BB. Folds back around and he calls. Flop comes A93r bet half pot, he calls. Turn is K, bet half pot, he calls. River is a brick, bet half pot, he calls. No straight or flush possibilities. He shows KK and bears my two pair. Lost $22 at .10/.25. Who the F limp calls KK UTG. I guess this happening once every 4 years is why they do it.

 

[Ronoh]

I’ve taken and given many, some of which are meetup lore. Having played over a million hands (literally) I’ve seen everything and don’t consider someone hitting a diamond or a gutshot or a two outer a bad beat, and there is no such thing as a bad beat when it’s all in preflop.

Funnest one may have been at SQM this year when Jeff and I got all in on the 43x flop... I had 44 vs his 33. Turn 3, river 4. I was on the good end but would have been a fun one either way and was a little payback for turning quads against his flopped straight flush the day before (he won the tournament anyways).

My one attempt in the WSOPME in 2005, which is a story I’ve shared with exactly three people, I busted 11 hours in to Day One as a 99.4% favorite.

Long runs of bad luck are irritating but individual hands really don’t have much affect on me anymore.

 

[Ronoh]

Funnest one may have been...

I take that back. Funnest one was at SQMII in the final four of the main event. A number of orbits in a row it went fold/fold/raise by Leonard on my BB. 5th or 6th time this happened I found AJ and jammed into his AA. One jack in the window, another on the turn had me on my way to the 1st place coconut

 

[Bluegrass Poker]

2/4 limit at Belterra in Indiana a few years ago. They didn’t offer NL at the time. A buddy and I got last two seats. We’ve played for a while. Bought in $200 max. Both of us are up to about $300 an hour in.
Table is semi-loose. I’m in middle position and have 77. A raise and reraise and whole table is in.

Flop comes 77x. So I’ve got quads. Bet, raise, reraise and final reraise. Down to 3 players, me, my buddy and player x. Turn comes another blank. Bet raise fold. So now two players so unlimited raises. I reraise and my buddy reraises and we do this several times.

River comes another blank. I bet and buddy reraises, over and over. At one point I break etiquette a little and say I will reraise until we are all in. He keeps going till he is all in.

He turns over QQ. All he had was an overpair. I collected the $750-ish pot and looked at him and said WTF were you thinking? He responded “I thought you’d fold eventually!”

SMDH. He is still in my regular group of guys I play with and I still give him crap about it whenever a flop has 77 in it.

 

[allforcharity]

Well, my son just crushed me playing heads up when I flopped a straight but he rivered a boat. I sent him to bed.

 

[Anthony Martino]

Well, my son just crushed me playing heads up when I flopped a straight but he rivered a boat. I sent him to bed.

Put his Xbox and games on craigslist as a free curb alert and make him watch it get picked up, that's like parenting 101!

Bonus parenting points if you videotape him crying and share to social media!

I think there is a reason I just have cats, good lord I'm a monster!