Playing Small Pairs
In cash games, for the most part, it seems that if you are playing a multiway pot and you don’t hit your set (which will happen 1 in 8 times roughly), then you’re hand isn’t worth much. It’s hard to win with just a standalone pair against several players, so if you miss that set, it’s often a pretty easy laydown.
There are opportunities, though, where it might seem your hand could still be good, though when other players show any interest at all in the pot, it’s once again hard to believe your hand could be good.
That’s why most of the time, the only time small pairs are showed down is when they hit their set, or in short stack situations, where the player put it all in preflop in hopes they would win buy brute force or then by winning a coin flip against two over cards.
Here’s Mr. Hellmuth proving that fact pretty nicely:
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