Expert Insight Poker Tip: Playing Small Pocket Pairs

In this EI Poker Tip of the Day, Phil Gordon teaches you the right way to play those small pocket pairs in no-limit Texas Holdem.

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[dotUnderline]

"a good magician never reveals his best tricks" so don't expect to learn much about poker form this type videos

[Kakumei]

Did you hear that Joe Cada?

[dmghoster]

what about flushs i would see that

too.

[caposton]

@123ableTHERollyboy

New shuffling machines and eight deck shoes have killed the effectiveness of card counting. At best you were only getting a 1% edge anyway. Unless you're talking about something different than you're full of shit.

Poker and sports betting (and in limited cases video poker ) are the only beatable games in a casino.

[TheRealityattack]

@amenKilla if all in againts AK, and small pocket pair won, it's not a suck out, in fact, if AK odds againts small pocket pair is a little bit smaller, so what u should do if someone shove their chip all in? see the situation, is it cash game or tournament, cash game, u might want to calL, but in tournament format, u have to think whether it's worth to risk all your chip in coin flip at particular situation, u don't want to risk all your chip a coin flip situation at the early blind stage

[ainevek]

@amenKilla Please go play something else as poker. Don't take this as an offense, I just do not want you to lose alot of money and it's clearly your style WILL lose alot of money. Leave poker to the people that do understand something of odds, of psychology (how will my opponent react when I do this) because if you only play the best of the best hands, people will very quickly see it and you won't win more than the blinds with your pocket aces

[ainevek]

@amenKilla Dude, seriously, learn to play poker dude you raise, I reraise, you have AK: flop is 10-9-5, well, heres ur awesome hand versus my pocket 3's, since you called a reraise, I know I'm safe and can raise, unless A, K, Q falls I'm fine, and even if one of those falls u can still read the other players hand. you say I will hate every card but you expect me to believe that 8/7 will call? U just expect me to believe tht ppl with nothing better than pocket pair or rlly good overcards call.

[amenKilla]

@ainevek wtf are you going on about????? whoever calls you raise to get ppl out of the pot then youre gonna HATE every card unless you hit that elusive 5% set you fucking moron. dont chat shit to when you are clearly a dumb fuck. low pockets are so EASY to detect at the table as 95% of players pussy out post flop and check the shit out of it. id take youre money all day long knobhead

[ainevek]

@amenKilla Dude, are you seriously idiot? Fools like you need to know better on their odds: pocket 2's has more than 50% chance to win in a heads-up, you don't even have to hit a set, wheres ur AK if you don't hit A or K (odds you hit under 50%) versus pocket 3's which still have the odds (small though) to defeat a pair of AK. I'd rather play the 3-3 against AK than the AK part. But ye, good luck losing to low pocket pairs due to not hitting your pair and then shouting other people have luck...

[123ableTHERollyboy]

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[artysmokes]

The strange thing about small pocket pairs is that they can be very profitable against 7 or more people (if you flop a set, the pot can be huge), pretty good heads up (often it's a coin flip on an all-in bet to double up or get knocked out), but don't give good value against 3 or 4 opponents. e.g. 44 is a favourite against AK heads up, but an underdog against AK and JT in a 3-way pot.

[amenKilla]

@ainevek lol ur an idiot. you raise up to get ppl out of the pot preflop then whoever calls you is gonna be strong unless they are retarded and have called with rags which in cash games is not that often. most the time you wont hit the set and if there are over cards to your shitty pair and they raise you hard flop and turn and river if u call that far what you gonna do??? call pocket 3's or whatever when theres aces n kings etc on the table??? dont think so n if you do you lose more than u win!