Another Pocket Pair!

[Aaron W.]

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To take it back further though, when you bet 2nd pair (from the pocket) into 3 other players or more, you will often find yourself in the position of either getting raised or having some passive guy that has you beat calling you down all the way.

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I strongly lean in favor of leading on the flop because Hero chose to raise out of the big blind preflop. Had he been an early position raiser and had cold-callers behind him, check-folding starts to look nicer. I feel that you should usually lead when raising out of the blinds, even in the slightly bad cases, because otherwise you're only raising the absolute premium hands from the blinds and that's too tight.

Lots of players quickly give credit for AA-QQ and AK when looking at a raise from that spot, so you might as well play a few other hands exactly the same and capitalize on their assumption.