How I Play Small Pocket Pairs

Playing poker this morning I started thinking about how I play small pocket pairs.

During a couple of ring games I noticed I was playing them on one table and folding the same hand on another table.

With a pocket pair you will hit your set every 7 or 8 times on the flop, you should play small pairs anytime you think the table will bet into you, or call more than 8 times your bet to get into the hand.

If you’re playing a ring game and the pots are averaging $10 then for a $1 blind you should play your small pairs, if someone raises it to $2 to get into the hand, you should fold unless you think that pot is going to $16 for some reason.

It is kind of tricky sometimes telling what other people are going to do but after a while you will just develop a feel for it and try to be right more times than your wrong.

When I get a small pocket pair table position really makes a difference for me, if there are 7 other people who can raise, and previously these people have shown they have a tendency to do that, then I am very careful about playing them.

That’s why I like playing them from the big blind, I know what it’s going to cost me to see the flop, and there are not too many guarantees in poker.

Playing small pairs should make you some money in the long run if you can read the other players right, and now you know how I play small pocket pairs.