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Pocket Pair Trouble

Postby JJSCOTT2 » Fri Feb 03, 2006 3:44 pm

Well, I'm trying to see how badly I'm making this losing streak worse, so I've been trying to look at a lot of stuff in PT. Most things look good, but pocket pairs are killing me, I really think I just don't know what to do with them having so much background in NL. It feels like I've tried everything. Generally, for pairs under 9's, I like to come in the pot if there are 2 limpers in front of me at least, otherwise I fold, if I'm opening in LP, I'll raise with 7's and 8's too but still fold everything else. This doesn't really seem to be working out though, so any ideas would be appreciated.

Pair: BB/hand:

AA 1.16
KK 3.04
QQ 0.56
JJ (0.22)
TT (0.41)
99 (0.19)
88 0.38
77 0.16
66 0.25
55 (0.33)
44 (0.61)
33 (0.58)
22 (0.21)

These numbers are from 8000 hands at .5/1 & 1/2 Party/Stars. About 30-50 instances of each pair. So it seems that those bottom 4 are just not doing it for me, and I think I have a lot of trouble playing JJ and TT, as far as pre-flop play goes, how does your JJ/TT play differ from AA-QQ?
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Postby Tiburon » Fri Feb 03, 2006 5:16 pm

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Postby CFlannagan » Mon Feb 06, 2006 1:50 pm

While we're on the subject of pairs, I got a question for you Tiburon -

How would you play the middle pairs if there was an overcard on the board?

I would usually bet out (or raise if the bettor is aggressive and always bet out anyway) to get a feeling of where the others are and make my decision from there.

Im curious how others would handle a pair like 77 on boad like J62 rainbow.
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Postby Tiburon » Tue Feb 07, 2006 12:05 pm

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