[prairieboy]

Preflop: If you're going to raise, raise by more than $1

Flop: By betting $2 into an $8 pot, you're giving your opponents 5:1 odds to call your bet. That's fine when you've got the nuts, but a pair of jacks is a pretty weak holding to keep giving away cheap cards. In this particular case any A, K, Q, 10, 7, club or even a J is going to be a scare card (to varying degrees) for you so you really don't want people sticking around too long here.

You're already a short stack at this table, raise all-in preflop or on the flop, you'll get called by the 10,10 hand and will double-up with much less risk.