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Originally Posted by OC1012
Well of course but even so, I'm surprised there's even a single person at NL10 who is min-bet donking the flop after calling a 3bet pre.
You look at it the wrong way. I’ll try to explain it a little more detailed because it’s something pretty important in my opinion.
You spent a lot of time and energy to move up to NL10 and take this poker thing seriously. What you see at NL10 is your hard earned bankroll and stacksizes that are twice as big as the ones on NL5. Therefore “one stack” might have a meaning to you far beyond what it might mean to other people from first world countries.
The guy who raise/calls preflop to mindonk the flop doesn’t see what the stack means to you. He sees $10 to donk off to have some fun. He didn’t get that stack by playing 2000 hands of NL5 at 5BB/100 but by pressing the deposit button on the PokerStars app.
So you basically approach those $10 from very different directions and both approaches aren’t ideal. You “worked” multiple hours to get there so $10 in your bankroll mean way more to you than what they would mean if you worked 30 minutes for them in a regular job and then deposited on Stars. Your opponent doesn’t see 30 minutes of potentially hard/annoying work in his day job, he just sees that he’s bored, likes to gamble and has some money he can afford to spend for that.
There wouldn’t even be a game without that second type of player who doesn’t care about the money. Not on NL2, not on NL2000. You can see that easily by the fact that there is no NL2000 game unless a bad player sits down. The regulars are just not interested to move money around each other even though rake is very low up there compared to what you are used to.
Now when you move up to NL100+, there’s a point where you start to wonder if money really means so little to those bad players because they are just rich or if you are taking advantage of a problem they developed. For me, that often was a problem in live poker, because there you often have it pretty easy to see that it’s highly unlikely that it didn’t financially hurt that guy to donk off a couple thousand. Today, you can think “maybe he’s a crypto millionaire you still dresses poor”.