Semi bluffing your small pairs? - watch out for the flop!
Should you semi-bluff with your small pair against a raiser on the button? When the flop comes with high cards you are supposed to have one...
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Set mining with a small pair
Should you call a 3 bet with a small pair? What about in a 3 way pot? Do you fold the flop if you don't hit your sit? Wait for the turn card? One of the villians is completely new to you. The other is VP 33 and PF 17% of hands.
Have you ever seen worse play with pocket 2s?
Pocket 2s. It's great to start with a pair. But as they say, don't get married to them. When do you get out of this hand? Pre-flop? Flop? Surely by the turn...
A bad call with the lowest set?
Hitting a set with your small pair is great. This villian has played 58 hands against you and has figures of VP 53% and PF 13%. That's a wide range to hit this flop. He gets very aggressive on the river with AF figures of 2/1/1/5. How would you play this hand?
When small pairs cost too much?
Pocket pairs can prove profitable but can also be expensive. The villain is VP 21, PF 17 over 65 hands. When would you fold this hand? P
Who calls my pocket Aces?
Raising with pocket Aces in early position should be standard play. Who do you expect to call you? Smaller pairs? Who would 3 bet? If the caller donks the flop what does that tell you? When they call the raise on the flop is the hero in trouble?
I've got Kings so who is calling my bets?
2c/5c microstakes 6max. The villain has VP17, PF 8 but AS 100. Up to now he has folded to all 3 bets so if he is calling this one what could his range be? 1010+? AQs? AKs? Would he 4bet with KK, AA? When the flop gives the hero top set on a monotone board what could the villain be calling with?
We love a pair of kings - but wait for the turn card
6max microstakes. Villain after 24 hands has VP 67, PF 0, AS 0, FB 0, 3B 0, F3 0. Heh, if you are in the pot why leave! Our hero makes a mistake of course. How should he have played this hand?
Big slick meets its arch enemy
1c/2c microstakes 6max. The villian (VP 17, PF 0) gets aggressive on the flop. Big slick can lose your stack!
Pocket Kings against a caller
1c/2c 6max. After 64 hands villian has VP22, PF 12, 3Bet 4. His aggression factors are: 5/2/5. What can we expect from his call of our early position raise that forces him to play the hand out of position?
Playing Paired Kings - Guess what UTG raiser has...
We love starting with a pair of Kings. But when the villian is happy to carry on calling bets with 2 Queens on the board should we be afraid that he has one of the other 2? What is in his range: AA, KK, QQ, AK, AQ, possibly other pairs? Has he hit a full house with his pair of 7s?