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Medium Poker Pairs
Pocket 9s, 8s, and 7s are considered medium pairs. They are not the strongest pairs you can start with and they require you to play them a little selectively. You have to be extremely careful when the flop brings overcards.
You will usually need to improve these pairs on the flop to have them hold up. When you start with a medium or small pocket pair, your chance for improving is a little more limited. You will need to flop a set in most cases for a winning hand. If the pot has been raised before it is your turn to act, you should probably pass on these medium pairs.
I tend to play conservatively before the flop and will fold this hand if it is raised. If you routinely play this hand, calling two or more bets, then you will lose more in the long run. With these pairs if you don't flop a set or straight draw, you will have to release them if the flop contains overcards and there is a bet. One or more over-cards will flop more than 90 percent of the time.
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Poker And Middle Position
In middle position you can obviously play all the early position hands. The additional hands that are playable in middle position are drawing hands. They are not likely to win a pot without some sort of improvement. You also can play a few more hands because you will have more information about your situation. If a player in early position raised, you know there is a potentially strong hand in front of you, and you will need to tighten up your starting requirements. If there has been a re-raise you may want to bail out altogether. In middle position you can also start to judge how many players will be active in the hand.
If everyone has called when it gets to you, then you know you will have a multiway pot. In a ten-handed game, middle position is the player in the 5, 6, and 7 seat after the dealer button. Players 1 and 2 are the blinds, so if you are the number 5 player there are only two players acting before you before the flop. If there is a raise in front of you, it will usually mean you are up against a big hand.
Anytime you call from middle position, you are adding to the pot odds, making it appropriate for callers with weaker hands to enter the pot. Calling a raise will add additional money to the pot and may entice even more players to enter because of the size of the pot. You will be getting better pot odds but you will be up against more players, decreasing your chances of winning.
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