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How to Respond to the Small Donk Bet After You Miss the Flop

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DECISION POINT: In a tournament, it folds to you in the cutoff with . You raise to 2.5x the big blind and only the big blind calls. The flop comes , and the big blind bets. Action is on you.

What do you do here?

PRO ANSWER: After calling our raise preflop, our opponent led into us on the flop with bet sizing of less than one-third of the pot. If our opponent had checked, we would have made a continuation bet.

Given the relatively small size of the big blind's bet, we can create a good risk-reward ratio on a continuation raise.