1. You’ve likely heard someone say “poker is an evolving game”, well no play better exemplifies this than the donk bet. Once thought to be a play only used by ‘donks’, hence the term, it’s become a widely accepted strategy, and even an integral part of many top poker player’s winning ways.
2. The term 'Donk' is no different than the term: 'suck out' or 'bad beat' or '2 outer on the river' or ANY OTHER poker term describing a lucky come from behind win!
3. The term Draw also refers to a selection of poker variants where competitors replace cards in their hand with cards from the deck on each betting round. Drawing Dead – A situation where none of our outs will give us the best hand. We have no shot to win.

What is meant by the term 'donk bet' in poker? In poker, a 'donk bet' is an out-of-position bet, usually small in size, that is made post-flop by a player that is usually: 1) inferior in skill 2) not the pre-flop aggressor. The one poker glossary you need to understand pokerese. My goal is to create the ultimate glossary of poker terms; the one place you need to visit to make sure you understand words dealers might say to you at tables built on bricks or a player might chat to you at a table made of bits.

The poker term 'donk bet' was actually coined relatively recently, only coming into prominence over the last decade or so.

It started out as a somewhat derogatory way of describing a bad play (strategically speaking), although over time the term has been used more generically to describe a specific type of postflop bet.

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PokerNews recently caught up with 888Poker Ambassador Dominik Nitsche who offered a quick explanation of donk betting and how the move fits into larger strategic concerns in no-limit hold'em.

As Nitsche explains, a 'donk bet' refers to a postflop bet in which a player who is out of position is 'leading into the preflop aggressor.'

In other words, say a player in late position raises before the flop and another defends the big blind with a call. Then after the flop the player in the big blind leads out with a bet — called a 'donk bet' because (as Nitsche explains) 'usually inexperienced players would do it,' not realizing the importance of position when making that leading bet.

'Typically this is thought of as a bad play, but there's a lot more to it,' explains Nitsche, who goes on to distinguish between situations when leading with a so-called 'donk bet' can actually be a good play and times when it clearly is not. Take a look:

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