Low pocket pairs do not play well post-flop if you don't hit a set and aren't willing (or more importantly don't have enough chips) to bet/push to rep an A/K hi flop or an overpair to the board.

Also, as I've learned playing some home-game style setups the last few weeks that there is no point in putting half your stack in preflop (raising) just to fold postflop...so what if you fold the flop and your next hand is AA and it holds? That just puts you back in the same position you were in before both hands and is generally a waste. I'd rather race or steal the blinds with my 66 here.


Now, as previous posters have indicated, all of this assumes that the blinds aren't 25 cents/50 cents at this point in the game...in which case you do have a little room to maneuver with a standard raise and play postflop poker.