Playing internet poker with low pocket pairs is something that a lot of poker players hate to have to face during a game, especially during cash games as they can carry a host of problems to the holder of the hand.
The hardest hand to play from the hole has to be that of double deuce or pocket twos, with this been the lowest pair available within the whole of the game of poker.
It’s a hard decision on how to play such a hand due to the danger of knowing that almost every player that is going to call your bet or raises will be holding at least one over card within their hand.
So you are seated at the table and the blinds have been placed into the pot, the dealer gives each player their cards and the betting action starts.
How would you play your pocket twos that are looked back at your from under you hand?
Generally SpadeClub.com players who look into their hole cards and see that they are holding a pocket pair tend to lead into the betting with a raise that suits the cards that they are holding, for example if they were holding pocket 6’s they would lead into the pot with a bet of 6 times the big blind.
So if you were looking to play a pair of pocket 2’s in a poker tourney, the general rule would be that placing a bet into the pot that is twice the value of the big blind should be the highest that you would consider placing into the pot.
Now poker players all over the world have a personal preference to each hand that they are dealt, like I would prefer to look into my hole cards to see a pocket pair of jacks over a pocket pair of kings due to experiences that I have had with the two sets of cards at the tables.
So although I offer these guidelines on how you should be looking to play your pocket deuces, your own personal playing style could disagree with what I tell you in this article but I would urge players who are falling into the red with their poker bankroll to try this method, this is one of the styles that I used to build my poker bankroll from playing on tables of $0.25/$0.50 moving up to stakes of $5/$10 at ring tables.
Caution is key when playing low pocket pairs, so tread carefully.