What is "Donking?"

[Matt Williams]

I have seen this term come up quite a bit here but I am not sure exactly what it means?

[SheridanCat]

A donkey is a person who plays badly. So, "donking" is playing badly. Players who are screwing around, say by straddling, often refer to themselves as "donking". I'm sure the 2+2 gathering at the MGM poker room last weekend featured a lot of donking.

Regards,

T

[TaoTe]

As I see, being labeled a donkey is somewhat of an insult, similar to calling someone a sucker or a fish. Anyway, to donk would be the infinitive verb, so donking would be the gerund of to donk. Mike "the Mouth" M. has a great video on cardplayer of him at a table calling Barry G. (and the rest of the table) a bunch of donkeys. Actually, I believe he left Andy Bloch out of his comment.

[AKQJ10]

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... [D]onking would be the gerund of to donk.

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Well done! Nice to know I'm not the only grammar geek around here. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[TaoTe]

LOL. Yeah, I got that going for me, which is nice.

[Pov]

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As I see, being labeled a donkey is somewhat of an insult, similar to calling someone a sucker or a fish. Anyway, to donk would be the infinitive verb, so donking would be the gerund of to donk. Mike "the Mouth" M. has a great video on cardplayer of him at a table calling Barry G. (and the rest of the table) a bunch of donkeys. Actually, I believe he left Andy Bloch out of his comment.

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It should be noted that donkey is typically a friendly insult and doesn't have quite the same derogatory connotation of sucker or fish.

And yes, that Mike Matusow commentary was great.

Last 10 seconds of: Matusow's Donkey List . . . And Andy Bloch

[Don Flamenco]

A donk bet is when you lead out betting when someone else has the initiative. Like if the button open raises and is called by the BB. Then the BB bets right into him on the flop - that's a donk bet. So maybe donking is the act of donk betting?

And my impression was that when someone calls another a donkey it's a more polite way of calling them an ass. Who knows though...

[Dave H.]

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Well done! Nice to know I'm not the only grammar geek around here.


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...could also be the present participle depending on usage.

[TaoTe]

True. True. I never thought poker players would be into the menutia of language. I shouln't have made such an assumption. I'm one, afterall.

[Dave H.]

minutiae...sorry, I couldn't resist...lol