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Message: [QUOTE="diabloblanco, post: 344624, member: 4734"] To address one point, KQ is a decent hand if you hit the right flop, but you're only a slight favorite to improve over a middle pair with it than you are to flop an improvement to your existing poket pair. It simply isn't [b]that great or terrible[/b] a set of hole cards. Very marginal. To address the OP when you're re-raising a 3xBB raise from someone in LP, if they are holding KQ, you almost certainly aren't going to scare them off of it with the amount of money you're going to invest in small pockets (which isn't too much). If they are any kind of player, they will most likely have your range of hands narrowed down to a few overs and middle to low pockets and assume you're re-stealing your blinds. In other words, say I raise from LP 4xBB or 200. Chipstacks are at about 1250 or so and the action is folded to you in the BB. What size raise do you think your pocket 7's are worth? To call his raise you're already into the pot 200 or right at 20% of your stack. Then to raise sufficiently enough to scare him off his hand you'll have to pop it at minimum his original raise of 4xBB, usually a little more. So lets assume you re-raise him 5xBB and make it 250 more to call. You have 450 out of your 1250 stack in a pot pre-flop (over 33%) against an opponent who you haven't really gleaned any information from as to the strength of his hand. He may be holding AA KK QQ JJ AK or any overpair and you will be dominated in the hand with over a third of your stack in the pot. If you're going to add these middle and low pocket pairs to your arsenal, which I highly recommend, you have to realize that unles you're heads up, you are going to have to exploit the slightlest edge statistically when playing these hands to make them profitable in the long term. Short of being able to see your opponents hole cards, this simply requires tons and tons of playing time. If you can get in cheap and see a flop with your middle to low pocket pairs at a full ring then go for it. Just be willing to drop them if someone jams the pot when overcards flop unless you're positive that they're representing a flop that missed both of you. Playing medium pocket pairs can be extremely profittable, but if you don't or can't get rid of them when the situation dictates you will lose a ton more over time than you will win. Damn I've been long winded lately. [/QUOTE]

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