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Originally Posted by soah
I haven't played live poker in a decade so maybe I'm out of touch, but I'm surprised everyone thinks it's a sign of strength to donkbet a board-pairing turn card (or any other turn card for that matter). I've always thought the opposite. (And yes, I ought to have posted before results were shared.)
Actually the opposite is true.
Alot of people got this line of thinking from online / playing with weak regs. There is a however a huge difference between a weak reg and a rec/fish.
When a weak reg or someone on tilt takes a line that makes little sense, (or donks or w/e) it is often a bluff.
Recs/fish very often bet when they have it. Sometimes I would let my mom watch me play, and in certain hands where I'd flop a set for example she'd go "oh, you should go all in right?"
If you think about it, their logic is somewhat sensical. Big hand = start putting money in.
The trick is to understand when fish are merging (with a hand like AJ here for example). They do this alot and it is surprisingly tricky.
I would fold turn readless pretty quickly. However, with the provided reads, I would definitely not fold turn. She has donk led twice in 60 hands. Thats alot. And one was followed with a x/f.
That said, people make more mistakes calling in these spots vs fish than they do folding. Even with that lol sizing.