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How do you play pocket sixes?
Pocket sixes is a small pair you open from every seat, and most of its value comes from flopping a set rather than from the pair itself.
Pocket Sixes
PlayableOpen it from anywhere and call a single raise when the stacks are deep enough to pay you off when you hit. You flop a set about one time in eight, so the plan is simple: see a cheap flop, win a big pot when a six arrives, and let the hand go when it does not. Against a raise and a re-raise it is usually a fold.
This hand opens for a raise from every position, including under the gun.
Common mistake: Falling in love with the pair on a board full of bigger cards. Sixes are easy to overplay when two or three overcards flop and you are actually drawing thin.
Quick tip: Flop a set about one in eight. The pair alone rarely wins a big pot, so set-mine with the right stacks.
All-in equity before the flop
How Pocket Sixes runs against a few benchmark hands if all the money goes in preflop. Figures from the Poker Shark equity engine.
Pocket Sixes on real flops
Precomputed equity vs a random hand once the flop is out. Each link jumps straight to the 66 row.
- 66 on T 9 8 rainbow : a middling board that hits this range
- 66 on K 9 5 two-tone : one high card with a flush draw live
- 66 on A 7 2 rainbow : the classic dry ace-high board
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