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Rudbaeck is pretty much right, I believe, although I was wondering about the relevance of probe bets, or how else to handle the pocket pair/overcard situation.

The problem with probe bets is, if you're playing stacks of < 25 BBl as Ed recommends (IIRC) you've got maybe 20 BBl left and a pot size of something in the range 10-25. A probe bet of 5-10 BBl is going to leave you too short-stacked to do much once you get the information.

To put it another way, a probe bet is a way of investing chips for information that will return (or save) more chips in the future. When you're nearly all-in on the flop, that information isn't nearly as valuable, so you probably shouldn't pay the same price for it.

So how DO you play overcards like this in Ed's short stack system? Enquiring minds want to know....