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That last AK hand is truly awful. Why not just call down? You had to be on tilt, right? I'm not saying call down is the best default play but it's much better than 3-betting.

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not on tilt at all.

calling down is only better if he's going to either call the 3-bet and donk bluff the river or 4-bet bluff the turn. i expected a 30/10/1 player to do neither of these but to c/r that turn scare card at some frequency. so 3-bet for a free showdown - he may even fold a better hand. not hard to understand really.

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"Calling down is only better if he'll donk-bluff the river."

Actually, if you're just calling down, he's only bluffing the river, not donk-bluffing it. Donk-bluffing requires you to 3bet which is what allowed you to be outplayed (albeit, by a donk) in the first place. If you think he has a range that's comprised of draws enough for you to 3bet the turn, then that means that his bluffing frequency if you just call will have to be less than ~70% of the time (on average he'll have about 30% equity here when he's drawing, I think). In general I've found that they bluff the river all the time when you indiscriminately call down, but you don't even need them to bluff much more than 70% of the time for you to break even if they never 4bet bluff the turn or donkbet bluff the river, and you need them to bluff the river even less often when they have the ability to do that as you forego what is now quite a large pot when you allow them to bluff you via the 4bet or donkbet (i.e. folding the best hand once you 3bet is such a catastrophic error that you should be incredibly careful with limited reads).

You won't get better hands to fold on this board so there's even less upside there.

Quite a long post for nothing really revolutionary. If you want me to look over a session of yours, make a video of yourself playing and I'll do a full audio commentary on it if it's ok if I post it on DeucesCracked. LMK.

Rob