Re: How to deal with drunks?
Don't stop being aggressive with drunks. In small stakes hold'em most the profit comes from weak players calling down to the end with marginal holdings. A drunk player is a great example of one of those players.
When they are calling everything preflop punish them for playing with weak hands. Raise and reraise. There are gonna be times where the flop is greatly to their advantage. This is one of those times. Other times its gonna be to your advantage and you are going to play it just as you did here and get called to the river by a marginal hand and win.
Don't let this beat upset you. Your brain and play tricks on you and look at this negative result (clearly when you did everything right with a drunk in IMO) and make you stop being aggressive because "Your gonna get called to the river by drunks." Great. Use that to your advantage and punish them.
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