small pps utg

Originally Posted by jyms

I think the fact that opponenets are loose and playing a wide range makes playing small pp's OOP easy. Were basically not trying to fold out people that can't fold. We are trying to hit sets and get paid. The fact that we can get paid easier when we do hit our gin card makes this a pretty easy hand to play. As with what spoon is talking about, we only care what our cards are when we show them down, so what cards would you rather hit your hand with on the flop and go to showdown in a larger pot OOP, T9o or 22? Say the flop is T52r

The difference between T9s and 22 in the example I gave was that T9s is going to flop a lot of equity very often, while 22 is going to flop very little equity the vast majority of the time. This means that with T9s we're going to have more opportunities for +EV c-bets, while we'll still have the advantage in large pots since we're making nutty hands so often.

As for the bold, that's only true in specific betting (or raising) situations where we won't have to play the next street (like if we bet or raise and our opponent only raises or folds and never calls). It's not true here since we're assuming we're seeing a flop a lot of the time.

As for deciding whether to play small PPs in EP or not (along with which would be better to open, 22 or T9s), it doesn't really matter all that much unless you have more specifics about who is at your table and what's been going on at your table. In some games it's going to be right to play pretty loose in EP.