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Radu Murzea
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I would say it would be flawed to raise every time with pocket pairs in order to hit a set but depending on the players at the table it MAY (and this is a big may as it hinges on your opponents sloppy post flop play) not be incorrect to at least call in every position to hit a set. This largely hinges on you winning typically about say 12:1 on your money when you hit your sets and this is largely possible at a lot of poorly played tables live right now. 

Say, for instance, you have 5c5d UTG and you opt to call $2 with $298 behind. UTG+1 calls $2 then the next guy raises to $16 and you have two callers. So now you have $55:$16 on your money meaning you have to call $16 to possibly win $55. or 3.43:1 on your money which is a far cry to $12:1 however that being said if you would typically make 12:1 or more on your money after you hit said set then you could then call the $16 to try to spike your set and from looking this scenario that would be a pretty safe assumption. 

So if we miss we check and we are done but lets say we hit. Flop comes 5s 7d kh. You can either risk check raising here to trap dead money or lead out 1/2-2/3 the size of the pot. Both plays have pros and cons but with a lot of loose sloppy players where you are going to make this playing adjustment I would make the first check raise play more often then the lead out. Say we check UTG+1 bets $18 dollars and another player comes along for $18 and you now can raise $67-$90 dollars into the $107 dollar pot and you should get called with way the best of it quite alot if not getting reraised allowing you either way to get all your opponents money in the pot most of the time in the two subsequent bets. 

The reason you want to try to get about 12:1 on your money is in these instances you are still going to lose all your money some of the time so you want really good compensation for those times you lose and if you can't get it or you don't think you can bluff people with good fold equity it is better to fold most of your pocket pairs when you don't have good implied odds from a set mining standpoint.

I would say it would be flawed to raise every time with pocket pairs in order to hit a set but depending on the players at the table it MAY (and this is a big may as it hinges on your opponents sloppy post flop play) not be incorrect to at least call in every position to hit a set. This largely hinges on you winning typically about say 12:1 on your money when you hit your sets and this is largely possible at a lot of poorly played tables live right now. Say for instance you have 5c5d UTG and you opt to call $2 with $298 behind. UTG+1 calls $2 then the next guy raises to $16 and you have two callers. So now you have $55:$16 on your money meaning you have to call $16 to possibly win $55. or 3.43:1 on your money which is a far cry to $12:1 however that being said if you would typically make 12:1 or more on your money after you hit said set then you could then call the $16 to try to spike your set and from looking this scenario that would be a pretty safe assumption. So if we miss we check and we are done but lets say we hit. Flop comes 5s 7d kh. You can either risk check raising here to trap dead money or lead out 1/2-2/3 the size of the pot. Both plays have pros and cons but with a lot of loose sloppy players where you are going to make this playing adjustment I would make the first check raise play more often then the lead out. Say we check UTG+1 bets $18 dollars and another player comes along for $18 and you now can raise $67-$90 dollars into the $107 dollar pot and you should get called with way the best of it quite alot if not getting reraised allowing you either way to get all your opponents money in the pot most of the time in the two subsequent bets. The reason you want to try to get about 12:1 on your money is in these instances you are still going to lose all your money some of the time so you want really good compensation for those times you lose and if you can't get it or you don't think you can bluff people with good fold equity it is better to fold most of your pocket pairs when you don't have good implied odds from a set mining standpoint.

I would say it would be flawed to raise every time with pocket pairs in order to hit a set but depending on the players at the table it MAY (and this is a big may as it hinges on your opponents sloppy post flop play) not be incorrect to at least call in every position to hit a set. This largely hinges on you winning typically about say 12:1 on your money when you hit your sets and this is largely possible at a lot of poorly played tables live right now. 

Say, for instance, you have 5c5d UTG and you opt to call $2 with $298 behind. UTG+1 calls $2 then the next guy raises to $16 and you have two callers. So now you have $55:$16 on your money meaning you have to call $16 to possibly win $55. or 3.43:1 on your money which is a far cry to $12:1 however that being said if you would typically make 12:1 or more on your money after you hit said set then you could then call the $16 to try to spike your set and from looking this scenario that would be a pretty safe assumption. 

So if we miss we check and we are done but lets say we hit. Flop comes 5s 7d kh. You can either risk check raising here to trap dead money or lead out 1/2-2/3 the size of the pot. Both plays have pros and cons but with a lot of loose sloppy players where you are going to make this playing adjustment I would make the first check raise play more often then the lead out. Say we check UTG+1 bets $18 dollars and another player comes along for $18 and you now can raise $67-$90 dollars into the $107 dollar pot and you should get called with way the best of it quite alot if not getting reraised allowing you either way to get all your opponents money in the pot most of the time in the two subsequent bets. 

The reason you want to try to get about 12:1 on your money is in these instances you are still going to lose all your money some of the time so you want really good compensation for those times you lose and if you can't get it or you don't think you can bluff people with good fold equity it is better to fold most of your pocket pairs when you don't have good implied odds from a set mining standpoint.

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I would say it would be flawed to raise every time with pocket pairs in order to hit a set but depending on the players at the table it MAY (and this is a big may as it hinges on your opponents sloppy post flop play) not be incorrect to at least call in every position to hit a set. This largely hinges on you winning typically about say 12:1 on your money when you hit your sets and this is largely possible at a lot of poorly played tables live right now. Say for instance you have 5c5d UTG and you opt to call $2 with $298 behind. UTG+1 calls $2 then the next guy raises to $16 and you have two callers. So now you have $55:$16 on your money meaning you have to call $16 to possibly win $55. or 3.43:1 on your money which is a far cry to $12:1 however that being said if you would typically make 12:1 or more on your money after you hit said set then you could then call the $16 to try to spike your set and from looking this scenario that would be a pretty safe assumption. So if we miss we check and we are done but lets say we hit. Flop comes 5s 7d kh. You can either risk check raising here to trap dead money or lead out 1/2-2/3 the size of the pot. Both plays have pros and cons but with a lot of loose sloppy players where you are going to make this playing adjustment I would make the first check raise play more often then the lead out. Say we check UTG+1 bets $18 dollars and another player comes along for $18 and you now can raise $67-$90 dollars into the $107 dollar pot and you should get called with way the best of it quite alot if not getting reraised allowing you either way to get all your opponents money in the pot most of the time in the two subsequent bets. The reason you want to try to get about 12:1 on your money is in these instances you are still going to lose all your money some of the time so you want really good compensation for those times you lose and if you can't get it or you don't think you can bluff people with good fold equity it is better to fold most of your pocket pairs when you don't have good implied odds from a set mining standpoint.