Most likely hand to hit a set

i think that only applies for tournament, cash i dont think so haha

i feel opposite, 22 is such a weak pair i feel like it will always lose unless it hits a set

2 2s, you may lose.😅

+capitonymical thanks Capiton!

+The Poker Bank Well done, been watching poker videos close to a year. By the far, most extracted from these videos. Good programs as well.

No set no bet, and yet people fret when the board is wet, they forget to jet and are met by their opponents that let you think your pair will net you some $$$

@@EllisAidan to bad, you have thrown away your easy get

I’m not even trying to see a flop with deuces . Im trying to steal pre flop or I’m out . Especially more then 4 or 5 handed . Playing deuces just isn’t worth the headache

You're very welcome Kibs! And welcome to the channel =)

thanks Tom!

Ahahahhahhahaaha

Weak. I'm always RoyalFlushMining.

Thank you!

+Aidan Coonan Thanks Aidan! It's PT4 with a custom replayer theme.

alsofuckoffnaziboy

lolwat

c'mon have some compassionativity.

They're just trying to sound cleverer

No that way he uses it follows perfect English grammar. Soooooooooo

YOU THINK UR ISULDER ALL OF A SUDDDEOOON OHHH I GET IT SCRUB!!!!!!!!!

+Ali Mazloum I'll put that idea on our list of possible topics to cover in the future :)

I'd advise against it. You'll lose more money in general folding to 4 bets or getting check-raised on the flop than you'd make from flopping sets. Even if your opponent is opening wide, this is generally not a good idea as you'll often not make much money even if you do hit your set. After all, your range has a lot of overpairs that will deter them from calling. This also opens you up to getting exploited if you ever end up showing down the baby pairs. Your opponents can start 4-betting you light or stack you off with premium hands (i.e. set-over-set). Maybe it is acceptable to pick one small pair and 3-bet it as a bluff every once in a while to balance your range or if you think it can induce spewy play, but I would definitely not make that play as a default. Remember that the reason that set-mining can be profitable is that villain's range will be ahead of yours most of the time so they will often call or raise with strong hands that lose to a flopped set. When you 3-bet, that is no longer the case, as your opponent will put you on a much stronger range. For example, if you 3-bet 44 in position and the flop comes KT4, your opponent is going to put you on a lot of top pairs/strong kicker, overcards with broadway draws, overpairs, or even TT/KK when you c-bet, raise, or check-overbet the pot on later streets. If you simply call the raise, they can put more medium strength pocket pairs, middle pair/strong kicker, or top pairs/weak kicker in your range and be more likely to c-bet or call you down.

And how much money have you donked off chasing bad beats with those same small pairs?

Extremely unprofitable if you play them just for sets.. they are very easy to win pots with without a set

@@adamskibrapmanlolage agreed. About a 3rd or fourth of the time everyone else has hit nothing. Dueces vs KQ or AK before the flop has 52% to win the hand.

@@adamskibrapmanlolage It's all in how you play them.... If you hit the set 12% of the time, you can be very profitable if you can play them without your opponents catching on that it's what you have until its too late. Especially with these low pairs, you can extract a lot of chips from your opponents before they even have an inkling on what's coming.

Niccolò Ivarson yea before flop but as this video says you’ll be 4 pair on the flop with only two outs,are you calling a Cbet then?

Jessie what tables do you play at, would love to take your stack since you clearly are braindead if you only setmine with pairs

Thank you! A downswing is a real thing...but rubbing a lucky rabbit's foot in an effort to get out of that downswing is superstition =)

I'm new but it seems like if someone is squeezing and you suspect they don't have a pair, if you can get the isolation you should play through with a baby pair correct?

skycanth1969 if the table will allow it, sure. But if the table will attack limps it becomes a problematic strategy very quickly...

The Poker Bank "I think we have to call preflop in certain situations.In cash games for example you have to see the stack of the other players and yours.If most stacks are sufficiently high and also ours (about 10-15 3-bets),This is profitable because when you hit the flop you can take all the money to your opponent if you play well".Someone said me this,is a good way of thinking in your opinion?

Lastellaofficial it's over-simplistic and relies too heavily on hitting hands. Good poker isn't played based upon just trying to hit hands...it's based on betting and bluffing at proper frequencies.

I love all 4 suits equally...but the blue/red combo from the diamonds/hearts really pop on the blue background imo =)

+Julian Walker it does not. you would need a windows machine OR you could run a windows partition on your mac using a virtual machine.

The Poker Bank it works on mac using an app called "cross over" -but i can't seem to get holdEq to do the same.

Get a real computer

Ruben Gutierrez “Jet” out of there 🙂 Hit your or don’t put another penny in the pot. AKA check/fold

I think they are incredibly easy to play post flop...... You either make a good hand or you have trash.

That was explained around 1:40. But essentially it's when your pocket pair did NOT flop a set and ALL board cards are above it. So 33 on KQ5 is a weak pair, but 55 on A92 is not.

EXACTLY

+hoopsrule44 against bad players, I totally agree. But if you do this with even slightly-thinking players they won't fall for it (they'll either isolate you a ton preflop or simply won't pay you off when you get active on a low board postflop)

weird

Permanent Quandary If the price is right and/or the implied odds are good enough, sure. But calling every 3bet with a small pair is a recipe for disaster.

+Permanent Quandary "I gambol wichuuu" hahaha. Try saying this when you do it too hehe.

Agreed

It's not always. But if you always limped small pairs your limping range would be very face-up and good players would punish you for it.

Of course it would be a very predictable strategy against good players, but I'm playing NL2 and as far as I know, most people don't pay attention to such things at these limits. Thanks for the reply !

Limping your small pocket pairs sometimes opens you up to getting squeezed. It also usually means you win less money when you do hit your set.

In addition, you can sometimes just take down the blinds or win the pot with a flop c-bet in position.

im not sure i dont limp hardly at all unless im trapping in early position sometimes players wont even know you limped and think they can open safely maybe it could get you to a cheap flop or see the river cheap but im not sure if its a profitable move i hardly ever limp unless im planning on limp raising as a trap really

Then I call and villain shows freaking straight

While that's a common strategy with these hands, it's incredibly simple to beat.

@@ThePokerBank I understand that, you are on a much higher level than I am. Pocket pairs come along so rarely that I hate to just pick up the blinds with them, or worse, be forced to fold preflop against a hefty raise or reraise. I am one of those players who probably limp calls too often.

@@mikeberry2332 Being aware an the issue is the first step toward fixing it =)

Top players rarely open-raise baby pairs in full-ring games from early position. 6-max or from the cutoff onwards (full ring), sure, you should definitely open raise all your pocket pairs by default. Raising 22-66 UTG in a full-ring game, however, is definitely -EV. Hell, it might even be correct to fold 99 UTG against certain opponents and stack sizes.

thats why u lose every game isnt it

but u will beocme a millionaire i know just time it takes for u cuz ur speical

a little salty over pocket fours and your taking it out on me????

+Mitjitsu For real, SO many players get ridiculously attached to a low pocket pair, even though it rarely pays off.

+MrStevie57 well it's a set 12% of the time, so the other 88% of the time it's a weak pair =)

Right I get it ty.

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@@supremeleaderarmy9164 won more money than you will ever win nickle and dime merchant,so get back in your box and be quite there's a good little boy.

The purpose was to understand how the hands hit the flop, common issues with them, and understanding how to visualize their profit making potential. That being said, it was more simple than many of our other videos...

The Poker Bank Thanks for the reply. Hope you keep up with the awesome content (:

We will!

But grandma is an excellent setminer!

Set OR BETTER = 10.8 + .98 + .24 = ~12%

Lance Hedges but a newer player doesn't yet have that common sense, and thus a video like this helps them understand those principles faster.

No, we don't understand. I don't know what a single one of those terms mean. I understand what Lance Hedges said completely though.

Equity: The percentage of time you win a hand by the river. We often compare the equity of the range of hands you have versus your opponent's range (see below) or often just the specific hands as well. Common pre-flop equity situations: under pair vs overcards is generally around 55% equity for the pocket pair (it wins slightly more than half the time); pocket pair vs higher pocket pair is roughly 20% equity. This is distinct from expected value (EV), which also takes into account potential bets on later streets. Open-limp: Everyone in front of you folds. You call the big blind instead of raising (which would be an open-raise, generally 2.5-3.5x the big blind). Position: The order in which the players act. If you have position on someone, it means that they have to act first. If you are out of position (OOP) to someone, if means you have to act first. Generally speaking, when you have position on someone, you have an advantage because you will know more about their hand than they know about yours. You generally want to pick stronger hands to play when you are out of position to account for the advantage players have acting behind you. The positions in a full ring (9 players) game, in order of who is first to act pre-flop are: Under the Gun (UTG), UTG+1 (creative, I know), UTG+2, Lojack (LJ), Hijack (HJ), Cutoff (CO), Button (BTN), SB, and BB. UTG/UTG+1/UTG+2 are referred to as early position. LJ and HJ are referred to as middle position. The CO and BTN (late position) are generally where you will make the most money as you will have position on most players pre-flop, are often in a position to steal the blinds when the table folds around to you, and will usually (always in the case of the BTN) have position on all the other players after the flop. The big blind (BB) and small blind (SB) have the unique situation where they have position on all the other players pre-flop, but are out of position post-flop. Ranges: Rather than considering only your specific hand or trying to guess at villain's specific hole cards, you consider the combination of hands either of you could have. Example: You open-raise with 99 UTG and the button calls. Flop comes AJ6. If you were only looking at your specific hand, this would be a check-fold or check-call most of the time with 3rd pair. If you were considering the range of hands that you can have, then you will often c-bet (see below) that board as a bluff because your range of hands should include a lot of strong aces (AT+) when you raise from early position. C-bet: Continuation bet. Pre-flop aggressor bets the flop to continue to tell the story that they have a strong hand. You generally c-bet strong hands (top pair good kicker, overpairs) for value, as well as mix in some bluffs with some weaker hands so your opponent will sometimes pay off your value hands. 3-bet/4-bet/etc. : A name for pre-flop re-raises. The first raise is the open-raise. If you are re-raising the open raise, it is called a 3-bet. If you are re-raising a 3-bet, it is called a 4-bet and so on. Generally you only want to be making this type of play with premium hands or if you have a strong hand and your opponent is playing loose and raising with pre-flop weaker hands. Implied odds: When are drawing to a very strong hand (sets+) that is well disguised, you are likely to make a lot of money when it hits. Your implied odds are affected by how strong your opponent's hand is or how well their range hits the board (the stronger their hand is, the more likely it is that they are to call or raise you while being way behind or drawing dead), as well as how deep the stacks are (the deeper, the greater the value of implied odds as you potentially earn more money when you hit your hand). Set-mining: A common situation where you often have great implied odds. You call a pre-flop raise with a small pocket pair and hope to flop the set against someone with a strong hand and fold otherwise. The 1/8 chance that you hit the set, you will often make a ton of money. The other 7/8 of the time, you lose one pre-flop bet. Blockers: Briefly explained in the video. Your hole cards will affect the potential hands your opponent could have. Using blockers is a somewhat advanced topic that usually comes into play on draw-heavy boards. Example: You have AcJh on a board of Ah9cTc 8c 2s. Because you block the nut flush with Ac as well as some straights with your J, it is less likely that your opponent has made a straight or flush and you can more confidently call a river bet. Squeeze play: A situation where there is an open-raise and caller(s) in front of you and you decide to 3-bet large, often as a bluff with medium/medium-strong hands. Example: Blinds $1/$2, LJ raises to $6, CO calls, you raise to $27 from the big blind as a squeeze. LJ and cutoff folds and you take down a $15 pot. The reason this often works is that you are telling the story that you have a premium hand (JJ+/AQ+), while the pre-flop caller(s) will often have playable hands with decent equity, but not premium hands (otherwise they would 3-bet). By re-raising over the top, we can often get the caller(s) to fold their equity, giving us a greater chance of taking down the pot. We should be careful about squeezing when the original open-raiser has a very strong range (they raised from early position or are generally a tight player) because we might get 4-bet on or otherwise lose to a stronger hand.

The Poker Bank I couldn’t disagree more. I watched this video, had zero clue wtf you were talking about, then read this dude’s comment and it made perfect sense.

Great comment! Really useful info and well written, I usually don't understand the terminology that these videos have and walk out pretty empty-handed :/

Not online they don't

Gustiyan Mahardika in the long run shit like this wont happen often