Pocket 2s

[mcozzy1]

I've been thinking a lot about the play of small pocket pairs. I'm just trying to get a feel for how successful people are with small pocket pairs.

If you have at least 50,000 hands in your PT database, please answer this poll:

[toss]

22 is usually straightforward. All the toughest decisions with this hand come preflop. And even that is pretty straightforward.

[Nick Royale]

After 20,000 hands I'm +0.3BB/hand

[thirddan]

over 50k hands
pocket dueces = -.09

what have we learned from this poll...nothing....nobody has a big enough sample size for any single hand to know its ev to any significant degree...

[chesspain]

I'm @ .07, although I only have 45K hands.

[Nick Royale]

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what have we learned from this poll...nothing....nobody has a big enough sample size for any single hand to know its ev to any significant degree...

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That's not true. If enough people with large sample sizes votes we could learn something. But I think there should be more alternatives.

[captain_swing]

Up .12 w/ 40K hand at 3/6. Down .09 over w/ 50K at 2/4. Guess it shows the variance where you have a hand ~200 times and don't have that high of a VPIP on it anyway.

[mcozzy1]

Well. I was curious because there seems to be some pre-flop differences in the way people play them. I rarely play them UTG. People were calling me crazy for ever throwing them away in a small stakes game.

To me, they're just not profitable unless you can play them in a multiway pot or with position.

Since 2s are so easy to play after the flop, I thought this poll might give some indication of success with different pre-flop strategies.

Like I said, I'm very tight with 2s, but they are a profitable hand for me. I'm wondering if people that always play 2s in an unraised pot (and sometime in raised pots) show a profit.