A donk bet leads into the player who bet the previous street

The page we opened is the public glossary at poker.org/poker-terms. Its entry says the name is short for donkey bet, and it describes a bet made out of flow.

In no-limit hold'em the usual order is simple. The player who called out of position on one street checks to the in-position aggressor on the next street.

Betting into that aggressor breaks the order. That break is the lead this page is about.

The glossary says early no-limit games treated the player who broke the order as a weak player. It also says solvers have shown spots where the out-of-position player should lead because that range is ahead on the card. It does not print which flops, which sizes, or how often.

A pejorative label can hide a sound bet, and it can also hide a pointless one. The word on the glossary is not a system. Equilibrium ranges are a separate study, and they do not print a donk frequency on the page we opened either.

The Poker hub collects the street-order notes. One opponent across every street is the short-handed case, where the same lead can show up with no extra callers.

Picture a raised pot with two players left, with the preflop raiser on the button and the big blind having called. The flop is dealt, and the big blind is first to act.

Checking gives the preflop raiser the chance to bet again. Leading instead takes that chance away and builds the pot before the raiser chooses.

The lead can be a value bet, a bluff, or a probe with a draw. The glossary does not sort those motives, and the cards, if shown later, are what decide the pot.

A bet that can be weak is the general idea of wagering without a made hand. This lead is only the seat and the order. It is not proof the bettor is bluffing, and it is not proof the bettor is strong.

A ring game with no tournament clock keeps the same seats for the next hand. A lead on this hand does not change the blinds on the next one. A raise after a check is a different line: there the first player checks, then raises a bet. Do not mix the two names at the table.

None of these pictures is a session result. They price one street, and they do not pay you.

Example 1: the pot is $40 when the flop starts, and the out-of-position caller bets $20 into the preflop raiser. If the raiser folds, the $60 comes back to the bettor, of which $20 was the bet just posted.

The new money captured is the $40 that was already there. That $40 is one pot, not a wage, and a donk bet here is only that price.

Example 2: the same $20 lead gets called, so the pot is $80 and the turn is still to come. The $20 bought a card and a later decision, not a guaranteed takeout.

Example 3: two $50 Coinflip stakes on this site make a $100 pot, the fee is $5, and the winner receives $95. That fee is not a poker rake, and we did not time a cash-out.

A fold win in Example 1 can sit next to three lost leads and still lose the hour. The glossary prints no recovery rate.

Start again from the $40 pot and the $20 lead. The in-position player raises to $70 total, which is a raise of $50 on top of a call of the $20.

The leader must call $50 more to continue. Before that call the pot holds the original $40, the $20 lead, and the $70 raise, which is $130.

Calling $50 makes a pot of $180. The call price is 50 divided by 180, about 28 cents per dollar of call, if the hand ended on this street.

The hand often does not end here, because a turn and a river can add more bets. The 28 cent figure is the price of this decision only, and it is not a chart from the glossary.

Robert's Rules of Poker, version 11, says a check then a raise is permitted in all games except certain forms of lowball. That sentence is about a check, not about this lead.

Unlimited raising in no-limit is also in that section. A room card can still set a cap, and if the card is silent the cap is not published.

Folding to the raise is allowed. The $20 lead is lost, and the rest of the stack stays. Calling because the label felt aggressive is not a rule.

Three products get mixed because each can show cards. Only the chips in front of you are the price you can recompute.

How PvP compares: Poker on this site is a table against other players, not a paytable that quotes this lead. Fairness recomputes a settled round that publishes a seed. That check matches this site's commit. It does not audit a glossary, and it does not audit a casino floor.

Purple and Silver roulette use 16 of 33 pockets, pay 2x, then lose 5% of the winning payout, which is about a 7.88% edge. That wheel is not a flop. We did not paste a live hand.

A screen of table counts can label how often someone leads. Thirty hands do not make that label a tell, and a donk bet still has no fee printed on the glossary.

The glossary says a lead can be correct when the out-of-position player has range advantage on the card. Range advantage means the hands that player can hold are ahead of the hands the in-position player can hold, as a group.

The page does not name a flop, and it does not say that any particular board is the spot. Copying a board from memory would invent a figure the glossary left blank.

Camouflage is the other point the entry makes. A play with a rude name can be the one a solver likes, and that sentence is a description of a label, not a claim that the bet prints money.

If you cannot name the two ranges, you have a bet rather than the advantage the glossary is pointing at. Calling the lead a donk bet does not fill the blank cells for size, stack depth, or players still to act.

The two-card street order is the deal this lead usually sits on. This page does not reteach the flop, the turn, and the river.

Use this before the lead, not after the pot is lost.

• [ ] Name the player who bet the previous street.
• [ ] Confirm you are first to act against that player.
• [ ] Say the size in dollars before the chips move.
• [ ] Know the call you face if they raise.
• [ ] Do not treat the glossary as a win rate.
• [ ] Do not invent a frequency the entry does not print.
• [ ] Separate this lead from a check then a raise.
• [ ] Keep a loss stop that does not depend on the next card.
• [ ] Skip the hand if the money is rent or a due date.
• [ ] If the session is a chase, call 1-800-GAMBLER.

The National Council on Problem Gambling page opened for this note prints 1-800-MY-RESET, and it says that line is not a crisis service. For a crisis it points to 911 or 988.

Do not play if you are under 18, or under a higher local age. Do not play where the game is illegal. Do not stake money that has a bill attached.

A lead into the previous aggressor can lose the pot on the next card. Nothing on the glossary stores a debt that the deck must repay. Playing to get even is how a small bet becomes a stack.

This page is an editorial note. It is not a statute, and it is not a seat at a table. We did not open a card-room account.

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