How to fold overpairs? Help me learn!

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You can't figure it out without a read. Folding overpairs is a big part of what reading is all about.

To avoid the situation without reads, you can raise more pre-flop. It either avoids the flop completely or forces a greater amount of the action to a occurat a point where you are definately in the lead. With shorter stack sizes it makes a diffrence.