Low Pockets and AQ

This is my first post, and I'm just curious to how everyone plays these hands. I have made many final tables and have cashed out over 2k, I have noticed that everytime i get knocked out of a tournament it is with low pockets or AQ. My philosophy with low pockets is to raise pre flop take one shot at a "bluff" if you don't hit trips and higher cards come. With Ace Queen i usually just call small raises or the blind and see if I hit. For some reason these hands just destroy me, a little information on a better way to play them would be wonderful. Thanks.

I assume we are talking about tounies here

Depends on where i get them. If i get them in late position, it is like magic to me since i raise from late position with any old junk first into a pot, so when i actually have a hand it is golden. So late position = raising and taking it from there. However with the game i play, i never ever go into a pot without being the aggressor, so depending on my stack size i fold these in late position to a raise if i have a medium stack purely because i usually gain chips at a good enough rate not to call a raise and ope to hit a flop, when your the aggressor you dont need to hit a flop. With a shortstack i will push to a raise with these and as a large stack i would be re raising with position.

From early position however i usually fold a,q and any pair below 8's just because i would rather raise with 10-4 on the button than raise with a,q out of position since both have jsut about same percentage to hit a flop, but in position you have more of an option to take the pot down. I never win much when i raise from early position so i never do with high pock pairs or a,k (Basically a hand i am willing to call an all in with)

A LOT of people will disagree with the way i play those hands, but position is what makes me money, not the cards i have.

playing pocket pairs depends on your position. I play sevens and higher in any position. fives and sixes in middle positions and twos, threes and fours in late position. when i get AK, AQ, AJ it depends on my position again, i will raise pre-flop from any position. check-raise post flop if i'm in early position and re-raise if i'm in late position depending on the situation and how my opponents are playing. i would check fold the turn if i hit nothing on the turn

Position, Position, Position. You also need enough discipline to know when you're beat and lay them down

very true with the position thing, but table presence might be your down fall. Do you play to much? Don't play enough? both of these thing will hurt you at the end. for they both stink of people not believing you.