Am I a donkey?
That’s today’s question from zoomraker. My answer is a definite no, but I would have played the hands he submitted a bit differently.
The first hand is a fairly common top pair postflop situation from a $0.50 buy-in no-limit tournament:
Instead of quoting the hand history directly, I’ll Q&A #96: A No-Limit Hold’em Postflop [...]

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No-limit decisions [...]