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 | Steve Larson |
| How do you play your small pocket pairs? However you play them, chances are if you’re not looking for a coin flip at the end of a large MTT or mining sets, you’re not playing them right. Why is it not generally a good idea to play small pocket pairs (like 2,2 – 8,8) ? In a tight game, if you get your money in on something like that, you can be almost certain to be left in the dust from the get go. Your small pocket pair will generally find it quite difficult to improve. It doesn’t really make a flush or a straight (and if it does, it may get you stuck on the low end of it), and it has only 2 outs to improve to a set (due to the implied odds that is actually a good play under certain circumstances and I’m going to get back to that shortly). Left unimproved, all you can hope for with it is a coin-flip (in a tight game even that’s a long-shot) and that just won’t cut it in the long run. Now that you know why it’s not a good idea to play your small pocket pairs, let’s take a closer look at some of the exceptions. You’re in the final stages of a large buy-in MTT. You’ve made the money, and you’re pretty certain you’re going to have a nice payday, yet you wouldn’t mind advancing through the ranks a little more or even taking a shot at winning it all. Your stack is not up to the daunting challenge though. Your back pretty much up against the wall, you need to do something fast to get back into action or you risk being blinded out. You pick up a small pocket pair, and you decide to trust your tournament life to it. Is it the right move? It kind of depends, but in the majority of the situations it is. The above discussed coin-flip which is not exactly the best move in a cash game, is exactly what you’re looking for here. Due to the fact that during the closing stages of a tournament people can’t exactly afford to be tight, the odds of you getting that coin-flip you’re after are pretty good, much better anyway than in the case a cash game where there is no pressure on players whatsoever. The coin-flip is one of the better ways to put your tournament life on the line for the sake of doubling up. In order to maximize your odds, make sure you take full advantage of the fold equity. This means you need to go all-in first and have your opponent call you. By shoving all-in instead of calling, you’ll give yourself two ways to win the pot: by making your opponent fold or by winning the coin-flip. If you’re the caller on the other hand, you’ll only be able to chip up by winning the coin-flip. Another situation in which playing small pocket pairs is recommended is in deep stacked cash games. Known in the poker world as set mining, the move is about seeing flops on your small pocket pairs in the hopes of catching a set. If the flop misses you (which it will in the majority of the cases) you fold. If it hits you, you will try to take an opponent’s entire stack by getting him/her all-in. Obviously, by seeing all those flops, you’ll lose money. Due to the fact though that because of their concealed nature, such sets are likely to yield large pots, you’ll be able to make up for all the lost money and have some left over as profit. This is the theory of course. This is how the implied odds are supposed to work. Because it’s not exactly possible to get an opponent all-in every time you hit your set though, in practice the whole thing becomes a delicate balancing act some people can get right and others cannot. | |
| Posted on 2010-01-19 00:03:05 | |
 | King Poker |
| The Flop is better known as the first 3 community cards revealed after the first betting round. These three community cards are shared cards by each player.... | |
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| Posted on 2009-07-25 07:19:13 | |
 | Goldeman Sachs Prediction: USA To Legalize Online Poker and Gambling |
| Goldeman Sachs predicts that America will legalize online gambling to create a combined US online poker and casino market worth up to $12 billion. The bank told the investors that there is no doubt that it is logical to believe that the US market will regulate - having the potential implications for US tax take, if nothing else..... | |
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| Posted on 2009-07-04 02:53:32 | |
 | The Big Man |
| Hey the Big mans back from W W W dot The Kid From Brooklyn dot com. A friend of mine told me that he played online poker and now he is not going to get his money that he won from a poker tournament because of the FCKING Federal Government. He says the FCKING Federal Goverment seized some bank accounts from players from the United States..... | |
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| Posted on 2009-06-17 04:17:45 | |
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