flopped trips - any escape from the donk?
 

£10 MTT William Hill, third or fourth hand. 1500 chips - no signifisant action yet at the table.
I'm dealt 99 in CO. UTG doubles the BB for 60, I raise to 180, BB calls. Flop is 6s, 8s, 9. BB raises 180. I go all in, BB folds, UTG calls and flips A7 off (no spades). Turn is 5, river is 10. I stick a fork into my leg.
Is there any way to avoid escape this result?

Re: flopped trips - any escape from the donk?
 

Why did you reraise preflop? 9s ain´t strong enough to minreraise pf.
If you try and keep the pot smaller by calling instead of reraising preflop, you will be able to get away from losing your whole stack.
About the push, he made a bad call and you should be happy about that call - at that point you were ahead.

Re: flopped trips - any escape from the donk?
 

Weakly disguised bed beat post. No we do not feel sorry for you.

Re: flopped trips - any escape from the donk?
 

With apologies for the weakly disguised bad beat post...
The reraise was to find out what the weak raise utg meant as I've noticed a lot of players mini-raising premium hands utg to get action.

Re: flopped trips - any escape from the donk?
 

yeah, quit playin' poker

Re: flopped trips - any escape from the donk?
 

Hey Registrar, I see you are new here. First of all, ignore the unhelpful posters.

First of all, I can empathize with the games on the Crypto network, the play is horrendous, stick it out though, on the days your good hands hold up, you'll do quite well with the money.

I think your preflop line was incorrect here. You should either just call or fold. If you do raise, make it big. But remember, these people think that Q8, etc are premium hands. I like to not invest a ton of chips, or push the winners very hard on this network.

As far as the flop goes, you pushed, and against most of the donks on this site, your hand will hold. A lot of times they are calling a push with K9, Q9, A9, etc. You're making him put his tourney life at risk in the early game, and also you have outs against the straight draw as well (think boat).

Just keep playing solid, post your hands, and no bad beats/results.

Good luck,

Pokernewbie

Re: flopped trips - any escape from the donk?
 

Hey Registrar, I play at Will Hill also and have come to the following conclusion - Don't try to work out what the donk bets mean because they don't even know THEMSELVES.

I was reading somewhere recently about understanding why you are betting and what you want to happen etc but these guys imo often are betting for the sake of it. They have no idea why other than they want to win the pot. If that means catching runner runner then so be it. If that means betting into a 3 flush board without a chance then so be it. Occasionally they do something that looks clever but I honestly think sometimes it's dangerous to over analyse their play.

Is there really a reason that "anotherdonk01" goes all in for £35 on a cash table with a total of £0.75 in the pot, in early position with A 10o? Total outdrawing monkey bingo action is the answer!

[b]<font color="blue">BingoChimp[b]</font>

Re: flopped trips - any escape from the donk?
 

I haven't seen one unhelpful post on this subject yet. #1, this is a disguised bad beat post and should be posted elsewhere as no one is interested in a forum of bad beat posts, we ALL have bad beats EVERY DAY. #2, he asked is there anyway to avoid escape this result. I told him yeah to quit playing poker. This is the ONLY way to avoid this result. You got your money in while having the best hand, what more do you want? These DONKS are where we make our money, more often than not they will pay us off by making mistakes. Be glad in it.

Unhelpful posts, I think not. Stop posting bad beats!

Re: flopped trips - any escape from the donk?
 

Fold pre-flop? Fold on the flop? Why are you wasting my time with this?

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You got your money in while having the best hand, what more do you want?

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That was way more helpful. I just saw he was a new poster, and maybe he wasn't familiar with posting results.

I agree that it was a semi bad beat post, and that he should be educated not to include the results and merely ask if his betting was right or if there's another way to do it. Thanks for helping to keep the streets clean [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img].

Don't post bad beat posts. Do post your hands and ask if there is a better way to play it. Crypto tourneys are terrible/awesome until you hit the top 20% of the field, then it's pretty standard play for the most part.

Good luck!

PN