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felipeanicio
Rock Star
Silver Level
This week I stopped to reflect on the best way to play low pairs and I ended up finding out how complicated this game is. So far I played low-hour pairing limp and hour raising 2.5BB, always trying to see the flop as cheaply as possible, but that thought is very "raw." Despite having a very superfluous notion of how I should behave at the table with low pairs, I know one thing. I always want to pay the smallest amount against hands that are in front of me in the PF or form a multiway pot, having the flop set as strategy. I think the flop strategy is the one that defines my action in the FP. I will propose some situations, considering that our stake is not short. The RAISE in EP: For me this raise in EP is only advantageous against passive players, because sometimes they will pay with better hands than ours, allowing us to see the flop for the price we stipulate. Weak point is that we probably will not have a multiway pot. Taking into account that we want a set on the flop to go down, it would be interesting more players involved. The problem with this raise is when there are aggressive players on our left. I believe that we will rarely call with better hands than ours. A re-raise would already make it very expensive to see the flop. In this case the call should only be valid if we are big So the villains on our left should be very well evaluated and our stake.The LIMP in EP: I find this play very advantageous. There are three possibilities, or we see the flop very cheap and probably in a multiway pot or we raise a villain who wants to exploit the limpers or raise a villain who has a better hand than ours. Three situations we'd like to have with a set on the flop! The CALL in EP: If the UTG has increased, I believe it is folded most of the time. The call in this case should be profitable only on a passive table, because in an aggressive the chances of a 3bet or squeeze are quite large, which will make the flop very expensive. The RAISE in LP: I like this LP raise! For me, even if our strategy is to go flop try to hit the set, this raise gives us another 2 possibilities. We can steal the blinds or as a consequence our aggressiveness in the PF to profit with a c-bet if the set does not appear. The care we should have for this raise would be our picture on the table, how aggressive are the villains to our left and if any is a short stake, then we would probably take a shove. As for the aggressive villain, a 3bet it would complicate our strategy enough, restricting us to only one set on the flop. I believe that depending on 3bet and our stake may be worth this call. The LIMP in LP: I think it should be profitable only against the villains where the raise is not profitable. Players who do not let them steal blinds, short stakes and aggressive. In these three cases we will often see the flop cheap. It's a strategy if our stake is not so high. The CALL in LP: This call should be profitable most of the time, depending on the villain increase, I believe 3BB is payable. The risks would be a squeeze. Maybe the bubble with a big stake or aggressive player at this stage is not a good move, as it will probably hit or bounce. This is for raising in LP and EP and the call in EP. Of those 6 possibilities I least understand is the raise in EP, I'm not sure if my analysis has anything right! Limp in LP also do not know if the line of thought is correct.