Pokerstars The Big Game

This post is a response to watching Pokerstars 'The Big Game' episodes, particularly the notorious 'E-dub' first episode in which the loose canon becomes a pardigm of donk play. In the Ernest Wiggins' bio it states that he has been trained up for the Big Game by his girlfriend on how to play poker. However Ernest seems armed with only the priceless disinformation that you should bet your strong hands, limp more marginal hands and fold the rest. Many experts have written that that when you are outclassed at the table, a slightly heavy handed approach to betting, expecially pre flop and on the flop can keep you more or less out of trouble in tournements, but in cash play (esp pot limit pre flop) this strategy turns into a masterclass in bad poker. The biggest problem Earnest has is that he is playing a transparent strategy in which the strength of the cards and his betting is directly proportional to the strength of the hand. Wiggins is playing  Hellmuth's 'Top 10 hands' plus a few more broadway hands which represents around 8-10% of all possible hands.  The rest of the players on The Big Game know this without seeing his cards, because they notice how often he is in the pot. In addition Ernest kindly helps the table by showing them his hands and giving them information about the strength of his holdings. This is how Daniel can raise him off 1010 on a KK4 board after he weak leads with a small bet: Since weak=weak Ernest's $1000 bet into a pot of $7400 naturally gets reraised, because Daniel knows Earnest is holding an underpair by the size of his bet. Part of me watches The Big Game hoping for a loose canon who plays well, like Nadia does in a later series; part of me wants to learn more about donk logic by watching these terrible plays.