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What to do with small pocket pairs in the SB when not deep and range medium/strong

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Joined: 07.08.2008

Hello,

any thoughts on what to do with small pocket pairs in this kind of situations? I tend to flat them but then I am OOP against, in this case, a strong range. As it is usually the case in tournaments, I have a very small sample of hands from villain and he is a 38/19 with 16 hands who calls raises liberally in the blinds (Q8o, 98o)

Winamax - 250/500 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 40.66 BB
Hero (SB): 37.2 BB
BB: 33.69 BB
UTG: 38.69 BB
MP: 55.1 BB
CO: 59.03 BB

6 players post ante of 0.12 BB, Hero posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 2.22 BB) Hero has 3♠ 3♣

UTG raises to 2 BB, fold, fold, fold, Hero calls 1.5 BB, BB calls 1 BB

Flop: (6.72 BB, 3 players) 2♠ K♥ K♣
Hero bets 1.68 BB, BB calls 1.68 BB, UTG calls 1.68 BB

Turn: (11.76 BB, 3 players) Q♠
Hero checks, BB checks, UTG bets 3.5 BB, fold, fold

UTG wins 15.26 BB


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SDK1987
Joined: 12.11.2008

Pre-flop seems standard to call for set value. As played I would use the rule 'no set no bet'. So that means I would check/fold in a multi way pot. You never get a better hand to fold or get value with betting in 2 players.

Cheers,
SDK1987


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