Small and medium pairs

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How to play preflop when they are small and medium pocket pairs?
Limp, raise or pay re-raises?
 
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From the many things depend, position, stack size
 
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It depends on the situation, but a rough general guideline is:

Open-raise 77+ at all times from anywhere.

22-66 in 6-max: open-raise from anywhere
22-66 in full ring: limp in early position on a passive table, fold in early position on a passive table


As for calling a 3-bet: apply the 5/10 rule: if calling costs you less than 5% of your effective stack (i.e. if villain is stacked shorter than you, you need to count with his stack size as you'll never win more than that), then absolutely call.
If calling costs you between 5-10% of your effective stack, then it depends on the villain and how easily you'll think he'll pay you off if you hit (or how easily you'll be able to bluff him off his hand).
If calling costs you more than 10% of your effective stack, then fold to the 3-bet.
 
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It depends on many things:
1. Your position
2. The playing style of your oponents
3. The playing style of the oponents who are behind you
From early position you may limp with them and call a min raise, but not a bigger raise because they are not so strong on flop AKT maybe. In later positions you may raise with them.
 
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22-66 in full ring: limp in early position on a passive table, fold in early position on a passive table
Should have been: fold in early position on an aggressive table.


Good thing I proofread.
Not.
 
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preflop i would raise double the blind if you have 5+ then depending on the slop would be the factor if you should raise again or check raise, but allways watch the oppenents your playing and see if you can get a read on betting patters or if they like to chase with like ace high
 
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in a cash it is better 3bet from late positions and from early positions it is better to come just on set
 
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at an aggressive table, playing pocket pairs OOP is very difficult, you will only have a set 1 out of 8 times. That's why the earlier advice on stack sizes determining everything is golden. You are going to fold a lot...
 
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