Being a donk is a hazardous disease for an online poker player. It does not affect the health of your body, but inflicts severe damage to the patient’s wallet, and you want to have a healthy and full wallet don’t you? Avoid contracting the donk disease at all costs for the sake of your bankroll by knowing how to take preventive measures.

The donk disease is highly contagious, when you are playing against donks you have to know what are you doing or you will become a donk too, it is not a joke, even the most skilled player can turn into a donk if he is playing among donks and doesn’t know what to do and which are the symptoms.

1)Donks sometimes get lucky and you will suffer a sad bad beat as a result of it, like the typical donk who had a pocket pair and chased you to hit three of a kind on the river. This will enrage you and there are high chances for you to start playing compulsively to get your money back from that donk. This compulsive playing will turn yourself into another donk and you will get the same chances as him to earn money. Calm down, relax or even stop playing poker for 10 minutes, think that if donks never get lucky they won’t play online poker and your source of money will be off.

2)Donks like to go to the flop very often; around 20% to 50% of the times, the donk likes to call the preflop to “see what happens”. It is impossible to get good cards enough to see the flop in 20% to 50% of hands so… they basically play with crap. Playing crap sometimes pays and they hit good combinations with them, but according to the odds law, they will lose money on the long run. Skilled players know that, but when they see a donk calling a lot of preflops with crap they want to catch the donk and start calling the preflop as well to take the donk’s money. By this they have been infected and start doing the same as the donk, turning into a donk as well.

3)Donks think they are not donks and are very proud of their playing style. They usually say thinks like “nh” (nice hand) or “wp” (well played) when they lose a hand not because of his opponent’s good skill, but for their own stupidity and lack of brains. These encouragements may turn a good player into an overconfident player and next time he may not play well against another player thinking he could do the same as he did against the donk… and lose. Disregard the donk’s compliments, they doesn’t even know what playing well is.

As a general guideline, pretend donks are not donks and play against them as if they were skilled players, if you turn more aggressive when playing against donks you are turning yourself into a donk and you’ll have high chances of getting your wallet ill.