25NL - Playing against an idiot

[mahhddgtp]

I haven't been playing too well lately, I've been off on putting my opponents on hand ranges, and I've lost some pots aggression would've won.

I'm still up $10 playing yesterday, which is better than being down...

Shitty villain was a 53/26/4... Calls all the freaking time with almost anything. Lucks hard against everyone else at the table (why his stack was so big... just getting lucky)

Replayer isn't showing what I have... But I have AJ of diamonds

Where should my aggression come in here? Donking out big on the turn (especially that turn) should've told me what?

Checking to me on the river (had I been on my game, I would've bricked the river). Would that have been correct?

[given1982]

You say villain calls all the time, but his stats and his play in this hand show that he is an aggro fish, not a calling station fish. Do you know what kinds of hands he's been donking flops with? His donk on the turn is not big. What it should tell you depends on what he's done in the past. I don't know why you would bet the river. All the straight draws on the flop at least picked up a pair, and I doubt he's folding any pair, so you're hoping only for busted flush draws basically.

[mahhddgtp]

Originally Posted by given1982

You say villain calls all the time, but his stats and his play in this hand show that he is an aggro fish, not a calling station fish. Do you know what kinds of hands he's been donking flops with? His donk on the turn is not big. What it should tell you depends on what he's done in the past. I don't know why you would bet the river. All the straight draws on the flop at least picked up a pair, and I doubt he's folding any pair, so you're hoping only for busted flush draws basically.

Normally he calls from the blinds with a K, Q, A with a random low card...

Well, normally he donks out insanely small when on a draw... When he's strong he just waits until the river to bet (he bets, doesn't CR)... He seems to have avoided me in most pots, so when he donked out again on the turn, I was kinda confused where he was in the hand... I hadn't seen him donk twice really... I had 3.5:1 on my money when he donked out on the turn... I needed 4:1+ to call for a FD, but I was so confused I just called seeing what he was going to do next...I basically didn't have the balls when he checked, even though I told myself I was betting if he was checking the river...