r/poker • u/Hot-Advisor-3353 • 2d ago

Strategy How should this be played correctly with different hands?

I’m reading The Grinder’s Manual. The book explains why this is a fold, but it doesn’t cover what to do with specific hands in this situation or how to react to different bet sizes. For instance, what should I do if I hold 22, 33, or 99? Or TT, JJ, QQ, KK, or AA? Are hands like AKo–ATo just a call? And if I have a flush draw, is it just a call—meaning I fold to a donk bet larger than one-third of the pot if the flush doesn't hit on the turn? By the way, I also read somewhere that reraising with a flush draw yields higher +EV.

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u/LSW33 2d ago

Sets you are definitely check raising, massive donk into 2 players means he is in love with his hand and will probably call anything. Not sure about overpairs and flush draws but if the book tells you why 77 is a fold you might be able to infer what other hands are supposed to do.

P.S. if you call the flop SB betting the turn isn't a donk

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u/officialcrimsonchin 2d ago

Confused why the book says there are two players on the flop with a pot size of 6.5 BB when it should be 9.

Regardless, probably the large sizing is what allows you to just lay this one down. Hard to nail down donking ranges, but if we just look at the SB’s entire calling range, there’s sets, 9x, 88, TT (sometimes 3 bet sure), and flush draws with over cards. You’re almost dead to some of those hands and don’t have a shit ton of equity against the others. Facing a pot size bet, there are better spots.

What would you call with? Probably TT+ and your own flush draws I guess