Betting in early position with pockets

[thestevo31]

I am always confused on what to do when I have a middle or high pocket pair when I am under the gun,in EP or when everybody folds to me. Should I limp, bet a samll amount or bet big? What do most of you usually do?

[BZ_Zorro]

This is what I do, not sure if it's good strategy or not but it works for me.

AA raise, same size as AK (4-5x).

KK,QQ always raise, same size as AK.

JJ/TT limp.
I raise about 1/2 the time (standard raise to 4 or so), but limping for set value is perfectly ok, and probably recommended.

99-77 limp.
Raise maybe 1 in 10 if you're a bit aggressive (not recommended)

Very occassionally I get creative with AA and KK, raise to 10 in EP or open raise to 40 or so on a crazy/tilty table. It works surprisingly well on the right table. Last KK I raised to 50 in MP with an early min raiser. Two ~$50ish stacks called with 33 and TT (3 on the river [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]).

This is a great strategy with a lot of short stacks at the table. Raise to just over the size of the smaller short stacks and watch them call with pockets pairs, AK and AQ.