Viper ChipIt
Rock Star
Silver Level
Chip stacks makes a big difference, if you under 15BB people will be reshoving and calling off with most pairs because shoves and calls will be lighter. If you play only hypers you probably never fold a pair pre flop.
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Zirkzee
Rock Star
Silver Level
With small pocket pairs, I don't call all ins for one simple reason. Your equity is 50% at best. Namely when your opponent has two high cards. But it will also often happen that you run against a higher pocket pair and then your equity is only 20%. For me, small pocket pairs are at most good open pushing with less than 10 BB. I want to keep the fold equity to a maximum and hope that everyone folds. In the bubble you can do this with more than 10 BB because the risk premium is high and your opponents have to play tighter. All in all, it is a mistake for me to outplay small pocket pairs and call all ins.
flattershay
Visionary
Bronze Level
It mostly happens on higher stakes because most good regs will gamble with a pair especially if you have bounty on your head.
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fundiver199
Legend
Loyaler
There are plenty of tournament situations, where its good strategy to open jam or rejam any pair especially in a late position battle. Lets say we are playing a traditional 9 man SnG, where 2 players have busted, so its 7 left. UTG and UTG+1 have 3.000 chips, everyone else still have the starting stack of 1.500 chips. Blinds are 80/40 with a 10 ante. We are sitting in BB with 22, and CO comes in for a min-raise. We are 19BB effective and both players have the same stack.
If we just call here, we are going to massively underrealise our equity postflop, because when we miss our set, we will usually face a C-bet and fold. And when we occationally flop a set, our opponent will often have nothing, so we wont get his full stack, which cuts down on our implied odds.
For those reasons our best play with 22 is to shove our 19BB in his face. In that way we get fold equity, and when he call, we still have a decent chance to win the pot. Sometimes we are going to be a 4:1 dog, but more often we are going to be flipping against two overcards. According to ICMzier jamming 22 wins us 0,52% of the price pool, so its not even close or marginal.
If we just call here, we are going to massively underrealise our equity postflop, because when we miss our set, we will usually face a C-bet and fold. And when we occationally flop a set, our opponent will often have nothing, so we wont get his full stack, which cuts down on our implied odds.
For those reasons our best play with 22 is to shove our 19BB in his face. In that way we get fold equity, and when he call, we still have a decent chance to win the pot. Sometimes we are going to be a 4:1 dog, but more often we are going to be flipping against two overcards. According to ICMzier jamming 22 wins us 0,52% of the price pool, so its not even close or marginal.
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Carlloss
Rock Star
Bronze Level
I don't believe players are looser, I often call with low pairs, but everything will always depend on the situation, such as my position, the size of my stack in relation to others, who is my opponent, what will be the possible post-flop strategy, whether I'm going to play to set or exploit my opponent's passivity and get him to fold a hand that can improve on the turn and river. Anyway, there are plenty of reasons to call or fold a medium or low pair.
mariale_1990
Legend
Platinum Level
I think this starts with freerolls, how do most people play a freeroll? All in with any pair and with any card that comes to their hands, I suppose it is more bad habit, or let's say they follow their instinct and some work and others do not, you can even think of it as a good way to win chips "easy "Obviously I guess it's more annoying than low par but it's part of the game
mattiebumpo
Legend
Loyaler
I agree. People are generally playing any pocket pair much more aggressively than I am accustomed to seeing. It really puts you in a coin flip situation and I dislike putting myself in that position...however, it may be that I need to rethink how often and how aggressively I should play these hands.
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1player2
Rock Star
Silver Level
Hello,
Regular tournament players play a simplified poker decision system. It's based on range charts and situational strategy. Most of the time regular tournament players will jam smaller pairs as a bluff because they will be flipping most of the time when they get called by AK,AQ for example. This can be frustrating for non regs but its just how the play.
Regular tournament players play a simplified poker decision system. It's based on range charts and situational strategy. Most of the time regular tournament players will jam smaller pairs as a bluff because they will be flipping most of the time when they get called by AK,AQ for example. This can be frustrating for non regs but its just how the play.
theANMATOR
Legend
Bronze Level
A high percentage of players in micro stakes and certainly in freerolls SUCK at post flop. They would rather shove preflop any pocket pair they are dealt - and pray relying on total luck, rather than deal with the part of the game they are terrible at.
What they fail to understand is post flop is 75% of the game - so if they can't play post flop - they will never become anything worth mentioning except as a story to tell your buddies and laugh and point at them.
What they fail to understand is post flop is 75% of the game - so if they can't play post flop - they will never become anything worth mentioning except as a story to tell your buddies and laugh and point at them.
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pwalker4201977
Rock Star
Silver Level
Well I get a little bit more aggressive when the tournament is past the cash point n I tend to call off my stack instead of folding but I’m getting better at being more patient n it seems to work if u are not over aggressive
davidsincara
Rock Star
Silver Level
As everything in poker, IT DEPENDES.
If you are short, any pair is good if you are in fishtank. IF you are in a sharktank OOP i guess anything below 77 is not that good. IP 22 is a very good shove hand if reg are putting continious pressure with any two cards...
I like big pairs , but i dont deny the sexy ducks or 4-4 against 1 or 2 players.
If you are short, any pair is good if you are in fishtank. IF you are in a sharktank OOP i guess anything below 77 is not that good. IP 22 is a very good shove hand if reg are putting continious pressure with any two cards...
I like big pairs , but i dont deny the sexy ducks or 4-4 against 1 or 2 players.
