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How Does Jonathan Little Deal with Donk Bets in the WSOP Main Event?

Last month, I’ve explored some interesting tournament spots encountered by some of my students. Topics included whether to value bet certain turns or check hoping to get to showdown, and how to play the nut flush draw on a monotone board.

In this week’s column, I share a hand that I personally played in the 2019 World Series of Poker (WSOP) $10,000 Main Event, one indicative of how to deal with donk bets.

In the hand, action was nine-handed and the blinds were 1,500/3,000/3,000 and I was sitting on a 212,000 (71 BBs) in the cutoff holding the .