What type of game? NL or Limit? Tourney(sng or mtt) or cash?

22-55 is folded pretty much everywhere though.

Originally Posted by slp

they are limpable late pretty much everywhere as well

In what. Post your PT for these hands :O

Originally Posted by Eclipse86

for NLHE cash games..
22-77..
just limp in and try to hit a set..
if someone raises and he has more money at the table then 7x his raise.. then call and try to hit a set.. so basically just play them for set value.. if any overcards hits the flop then its pretty much check-fold..

personally for me, i tend to play 22-88, and sometimes 99 this way as well...
because i find that pocket 8s and pocket 9s.. sometimes even pocket jacks and tens.. are EXTREMELY hard to play after the flop, when u get a few callers, and thers over cards on the flop.

I've yet to really figure it out, it's an interesting gamble that can get all of your opponents chips if you hit your hand, but you're never really home free when you hit a set. You could also play like an idiot like me, call with 33, flop an open ended straight draw, hit it, fire all your chips in the pot like a donk and bust out (I kind of learned a lesson in that hand on avoiding an idiot end of a straight).

When I watched nu2mdwst2 play these pairs he was stuck in 2 bad situations. He had called a min raise in the cut off seat with 33 (and I'm not gonna disagree with the play, because if he hits his hand, he puts himself in position to win the tournament). Unfortunately the button pushes with QQ I believe and he essentially just donates chips. The other hand that came up was in the last person before the bubble ends, it's folded to him in the SB with 66, and he raises, and a big stack in the BB goes all in. Even if the BB has 7-2 he's forced to muck that if he wants to make the money or play it safe if he has a legitimate hand.

Tournaments can also vary on your stack, if you're short stacked towards the end of the tournament, obviously it gives you the option to push if you're the first one into the pot.

8s and 9s extremely hard to play? Not necessarily, all you have to do is pick up the information and you'll know you have the best hand. It can obviously be more difficult in tournaments when you have to protect your stack as much as you can. Just read the hands, collect the information and make the decision. And if you don't have the best hand, buy it

I recommend you fold them ab. You need to be very skilled flop player to take down pots with 22-66etc. when you dont hit set.

The people who have contributed to this thread have done their best, but you're problem is not "mid-low" pairs.

Read No-Limit Texas Hold 'Em by Brad Daugherty and Tom McEnvoy for NL ring strategy, Championship Pot Limit and No Limit Hold 'Em by T.J. Cloutier and Tom McEnvoy for tourney crap and/or Small Stakes Hold 'Em by Lee Jones(?) for limit strats.

Read these and your question in this thread will be answered.