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Playing Low - Med Pocket Pairs In Early Rounds

Postby MBridges » Wed Aug 02, 2006 9:30 pm

Can I get some advice on them? I'm a newbie to SNG's still and trying to figure out the strategy for me. If I'm in early position I fold them. If I can limp in med or late I usually do to try and hit the set. Blinds I'll check to try and hit the set.

Here's a couple hands I had

1. Round 1 in middle position I limp with pocket 6's. There's probably 6 of us in the pot. Flop is 2-4-7 rainbow. First to act min bets for $10 second guy calls. I seriously thought about calling cause it was only $10 but figured surely someone behind me would raise and I'd just be throwing $10 away so I folded. Everybody else played with no raising and of couse the turn was a 6. River was nothing and the winner of a $400 pot was a guy with A-7o.

2. Round 4 in middle again and I get pocket 8's and call a min raise as does 1 other. Flop is 2-7-A rainbow. First guy min bets and as I've played extremely tight and had junk all night I raise about 2/3 the pot hoping to steal. The guy behind me folds and the first goes over the top about 4 times my bet. I fold and he shows junk.
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Postby Cactus Jack » Thu Aug 03, 2006 7:01 am

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Postby MBridges » Thu Aug 03, 2006 12:28 pm

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Postby Sunbob » Fri Aug 04, 2006 10:15 am

I usually play low to mid PP as a "set it or forget it hand".

Hand 1 was fine. You are getting good odds to limp in and see the flop. If you hit you will probably win a nice pot. When you miss - let it go. Well done.

Hand 2 - calling the min-raise preflop is fine. But then you got fancy. This is not the time to try to steal against the preflop raiser. Let it go.

And yes, there will be times when you will muck what would have become a good hand. You will have arrived when you have mucked a Royal Flush. (That actually happened to me last month.) Learn to forget your cards once they hit the muck.
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Postby Cactus Jack » Sun Aug 06, 2006 9:36 am

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Postby MBridges » Mon Aug 07, 2006 12:15 pm

That's where I've been stuck lately. I can't get a hand to save my life. Low-med pocket pairs that completely miss the flop. Or I'll get a halfway decent hand I could play from the blinds only have a raise and re-raise(s) in front of me that make my hand worthless. The other day I FINALLY get K's in the BB and it's folded all the way around so I pick up a whoppin $20 from the SB.
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