Betting when you have lowest, middle or top pair

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Hi

This is something that confuses me a lot, how much to bet if you have bottom, middle or top pair.

Of course someone could be holding pocket pairs higher than all 3 anyway but as a rule of someone bets and your sat on lowest or middle pair how much would you call and likewise how much would you raise if any based on bottom, top and middle pair? Either after the first, second or river
 
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There are so many factors that have an effect on this.

Do you have any draws? Any backdoor draws? Is it a wet or dry board?

Is your opponent the type that you can push off a hand if a scare card comes?

Also how your opponent plays can be very important too. You've gotta be able to put your opponent on a range of hands to determine how you should continue. If they are tight or loose ect...

Lots of things factor into this but on a general rule, when I do bet, I usually try to make it the same no matter what I have. As to not tip off the strength of my hand.
 
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It all depends on what position you're in and the actions of players before you, if the top pair that you can increase there as well, tells you the head.
 
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If I'm betting with the lowest pair, with few outs, then I'm bluffing, not value-betting. And I try to avoid those situations, except when I am the pre-flop raiser and my c-bet has a high probability of inducing a fold from the villain.
 
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it all depends on the enemy you need to look at the situation
 
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I would need to know a lot more information. This would be a very situation specific decision for me. Factors in no particular order would include:

1. Number of players in the pot. There is a big difference between 4 or 5 to the flop and being heads up.

2. Pre flop action. Is this a pot that was limped into, raised, 3-bet? Very different. What position did the raises come from? Do the players that raised realize position and hand selection related to your posution pre-flop?

3. Your position. This is simply information. You have more information the later the position you hold. Is flop bet and raised in front of you in 3-way pot? Or are you first to act with two behind you?

4. The texture of the board. A board of Ad Kd Ts where you have bottom pair holding 9hTh is very different than a board of Jh 9c 3s.

5. Cash game or tournament play? There are many other factors that may come into play in a tournament. What stage? Blind levels relative to your stack? The stacks of others? In the bubble, close to bubble, early stages, ITM, final table, down to last 3 or 4 players, etc...?

6. A read on the player(s) in the pot with you. Do they over value their hands? Are they aggressive and can you expect to be faced with raises at every time you put money in the pot?
 
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Hi

This is something that confuses me a lot, how much to bet if you have bottom, middle or top pair.

Of course someone could be holding pocket pairs higher than all 3 anyway but as a rule of someone bets and your sat on lowest or middle pair how much would you call and likewise how much would you raise if any based on bottom, top and middle pair? Either after the first, second or river
Well, I usually with either pair paid the flop, if I crack I give it all all win ... depending on the cards of course! ... it depends a lot on the value of the flop as well, but in any case it is good to risk sometimes ^^ ... not always
 
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