Free Poker Online Games Winning More Cash Guide To Low Pocket Pairs Strategy

Learning how to play low pocket pairs (the most powerful cards you ever get dealt) is the subject of this free online poker training lesson.

Card pairs 2/2 through to 9/9 are what we define as low pocket pairs and they will, believe it or not (and you will believe by the end of this article) win you more money long term than any other pocket cards.

More than pocket A/A, pocket K/K, pocket Q/Q? How is that possible you shout! Not possible, it's a fact.

In addition to being superb against good players they are also great for destroying those annoying "all in all the time" donk players.

Why Are Low Pockets So Good?

Your probability of being dealt any pocket pair is about 6%. So on average you'll get a pocket pair once every 16 or 17 hands.

1) With a pocket pair you have about a 1 in 8 chance to get a set at the flop (3 of a kind).

2) Based on this you will be able to play a post-flop set approximately once in every 133 hands. On a 10 player table that equates to one time about every 13 small blind/big blind bets you deposit into.

3) Low pocket pairs are playable from all table positions however ONLY at a cost that does not exceed the big blind from Early Position, over 2x the big blind from Middle Position and 3x big blind from Late Position.

4) In addition when you have them you should not raise the big blind pre flop.

5) Plus if you limp in when seated in Early Position, or you've called a 2x the big blind bet from Middle Position, and, a raise has occurred to 3x the big blind, plus, there are 5 or more players in the hand, you should call the 3 times the big blind bet from both Early and Middle positions at the table.

Why?
When there are five plus players left there is a higher probability the flop will show 2 or 3 low cards.

This is because it's likely that the players left in the hand have 1 or more paint cards.

Now, the one set we end up with becomes a powerful weapon. This is especially so if it is a 2-9 set. Yes, Aces down to Tens are serious weapons too, but the chance to put a big hit on the opposition lies more in the lower pocket pairs, rather than the higher pocket pairs.

The reason is that many players, especially poor ones, do not fear low cards that hit the board as part of the flop.

This example hand illustrates the point.
You're seated Late Position with pocket 5c/5h. There is a 'bad' player with Jh/7c and a 'good' player with Ad/Qd.

Our better player raises 3x the big blind and the poorer one calls, you also call, everyone else folds. The flop hits the board, and it contains Ah/Jd/5s; giving you a set of Fives. The 'good' player, again bets 3x the big blind.

The 'bad' player, raises by a factor of three; crazy as he's holding the middle pair, and the 'good' player has betted into the flopped Ace. You call as does the good player.

Now it is the Turn and the card is a 7d. It gives the 'good' player a nut flush draw (Ad/Qd/Jd/7d), and he holds the high board pair (Ad/Ah). It gives the 'bad' player two pairs (Jacks over Sevens). You have your set of 5c,5h,5s.

At this point you may be concerned that the River will bring a card to fill the flush or a J or a 7.

But do not be. In total there are 9 flush-maker cards, and 4 full-house-maker cards, 13; less the remaining Five. It's a flush-maker but will also give you quad Fives. So there are 12 cards left that can be dealt that will make you lose and 34 that will win it for you. That's 3-1 in your favour, pretty good odds.

The river helps no one. The bad player moves all in, you call and take the pot.

So how was it that this pocket 5 situation was so good?
It's because the set of Fives was hidden; as will always be the case when pocket 2/2, 3/3, 4/4, 5/5, 6/6, 7/7, 8/8, and 9/9 are turned into sets by the flop (1 in 133; although that includes sets of Tens, Jacks, Queens, Kings, and Aces).

In addition nobody could get a read on these cards. You almost always slow-play it such that opponents, 'bad' or 'good', cannot identify the powerful set the flop created.

The 'low pocket pair strategy' is used all pro poker players yet is little known. After all, they win more money but do is under the radar so the pros are not going to shout about it!

So as a next step, go and practice how to play low pocket pairs on free online poker games sites and then move on to low stakes and make money!