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Originally Posted by JohnRusty
I hardly ever donk. Are there any sorts of spots where you advocate it, especially against weaker pools? Or is the doug polk conventional wisdom mostly correct in your opinion: that it usually just over-complicates the game tree drastically with hardly any EV gain?
I'm sure there are a lot of spots where it could make sense both exploitatively and theoretically, but to do it well can be difficult. Also, doing it well to begin with is going to require a good solid overall understanding of the range vs. range interaction to begin with and to have that you're probably going to be beyond 25nl. My advice for basically every single node in the game tree is keep it stupid simple. (KISS)
I did run the sim for this and it does donk small on river some, but I'm not sure you're really going to be gaining EV doing it. Also, in this spot IP should have a decent amount more QX than you since he has QQ/KQ/AQ all at higher frequencies since you should be 3-betting some of those hands which is why I originally just straight up said no.
In any situation where equities can shift a lot is when OOP can consider having a donking range (so 4-straight could be a spot for it on the river), paired cards, flushes, etc.