Calling reraises with small/medium pocketpairs

[DennisGPunkt]

How deep do you have to deep to...

a) call a reraise IP with a small/med pair vs unknown

b) call a reraise OOP with a small/med pair vs unknown

c) a) call a reraise IP with a small/med pair vs a good player

d) call a reraise OOP with a small/med pair vs a good player

So far I've been folding my small/med pps IP and OOP vs an unknown villain if I wasn't atleast 150BB deep. Against a good player who is capable of threebetting lite I either fold or 4 bet, depending on my image.

I was wondering if this is the right way to play them or should I call IP with my PPs more often.

[monkover]

a)dont call reraises ip with small pp b/c you can´t usually play for set value same for mid pp
b)same as a)
c)same except villain 3bets light I´ll def call with mid pp
d)i don´t do that

this is for 100bb stacks
i advise you to play small pp only for set value at this level until you develop good post flop skills
you need about 11 times the preflop raise in effective stacks to call for set value

[iheartponeez]

When it comes to PP I don't think position is very important anymore. It's not like AQ where you wonder where you stand. You either have a hand you're willing to push it all with, or one you're looking to drop, and there's not much grey area in between.

That said, I'll personally call a reraise (not the total amount, but the amount put over my money) of up to 10% of the villain's stack. We have a 1/8 shot to hit.

Now at first this seems profitable, since you're basically paying $1 for a 1 in 8 chance to in $10 (a great racket), but then you realize that not every time you get a set will your opponent stack off.

But THEN you realize that since the guy 3-bet you, we're playing for bigger money, the chances of taking down a big pot are pretty high, and stacking off ain't no thang.


So that's my take on it.