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I usually interpret a big donk bet on the flop as protecting something. But I wonder what this guy thought he was protecting his holding from. He already had two overcards to his pocket pair. Calling that protection donk was absolutely the right move.
Flop sizing should’ve been bigger, to isolate. I’d consider going for an iso raise as high as 6bb. What I’ve recently started doing is usually after I make the sizeable iso raises a few times I scale the sizing back. If you keep going with the large iso raises you’ll eventually get trapped by a limp-raise. They don’t like that, and they retaliate.
It’s hard to put someone like him on a range when he makes nonsense plays like that flop donk bet. Hopefully you put a good note in your tracker about him.
There’s no doubt he would’ve called your iso raise with that holding. The runout was terribly unlucky for you. It was hard to get away from.
