Pocket Pairs in No Limit

Hello,

Just this morning, I played in a MTT online NL tournament. I don’t know much about the players there as I was just moved from another table.

I was on the button w/ 22. UTG when I raised 3 times the blind. Eventually, everyone folded to me. What do you think, how many chips do I need to call the raise? How about 10 times the raise, as the minimum? 15 times? Or else something much higher? What’s your idea about this?

By the way, what if there is a caller in front of me? Or worser, 2 callers? Another thing, about 56 suited, is it as good as the 22 or does the math change eventually?

Thank you.

Bodie

Bodie,

To call a raise with 2-2 preflop in a tournament, you need to pretty much either be calling the raise of a short stack or have a fairly large stack.

If you raise preflop with 2-2 and get two callers, then you need to flop a set. At best you are a coin flip to win.

5-6 suited in a heads up pot is actually slightly ahead of 2-2 preflop. The reason is due to the fact that both cards are overcards and that they are suited. It’s still a coin flip however.

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