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Old 08-24-2006, 01:45 PM     Post subject: Pocket Pairs... Hmmm #1 (permalink)  
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So I'm thinking about pocket pairs at the moment.

Yesterday I was on a fairly tight table where most of my pfrs would win the blinds.

In that environment I started raising all my PPs almost regardless of position and if not taking it there, quite often on the flop.

So PPs are good. I like them. They are my friends. But I'm not sure what is more positive EV, on tight tables, raising PPs or calling with them.

It seems to me that the advantage of the raise is that if you maintain iniative onto the flop you can frequently take the pot with a c-bet. Other players are usually in the mindset that if they don't hit their hand then they have or get out because of your aggression.
This doesn't seem quite the same if you limp in pre-flop and then suddenly bet.

So you win more pots with the raises, I'd say.
But the trouble is if you are holding 99 and the flop comes up AK9 and you bet then you're probably going to have hard time building up a pot).

Basically it seems tha with a small PP you're betting to get them to fold and then if you hit you're suddenly wanting them to call you down.

I should also add that I play PPs passively. So if someone raises 3xbb preflop I'll call and then set-or-forget. If I've raised pre-flop I've stuck with the hand; which brings its won nice pots but risks losing when they just don't believe you... (and have cards).

The other thing is, how likely do you have be to really do damage to their stack? If they're playing timidly there's a chance you may just see a few minbets and a fold to anything more. If the time you hit doesn't make up for the seven times you miss then suddenly the whole idea of limping PPs seems -EV.


BTW, this must have been discussed befoer but I can't see anything when I search.
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Old 08-24-2006, 01:46 PM #2 (permalink)  
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Pfft. Sorry. Wrong forum.
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