Stud Hi: Two Small Pairs on 4th Street Poll.

[Wahoo73]

Typically, good stud players don't play hands that start off with a small pair and a small kicker, but occasionally they get "stuck" with them. I find these sorts of hands to be among the most difficult to play.

For example, you are dealt (66)2 and are the BI in a full ring Stud Hi game. 3-5 players limp-in with what appear to be live medium to high cards...the rest fold. (For the sake of discussion, live/dead suits are irrelevant.)

On 4th street, you catch another 2, your 6s and 2s are totally live, and nobody else pairs their board, so the action is on you. (Again, for the sake of discussion, the rest of the on-board hands look like a typical collection of random mix of high cards, low cards, possible straight and possible flush draws.)