Hello!

I`ve been playing NL50 for like half a month already, everythings been ok so far, my winrate is around 3-4bb for 60 k hands, though I`m trying to mix up my game and try to find the most comfortable for myself.

My question is how to play pocket pairs starting with 22 to 88 out of the blinds versus CO un Button stealers? Like I said I try to mix up my game , when I started off NL50 I tend to call CO and Button raises much more often and it seemed really profitable. OK, you could say my implied odds aren`t that good, because of the stealers looser hand range, but what I found is players at these stakes use to overplay their hands a lot..I remember a lot of cases when steal raisers paid me off their whole stacks with just top pair even with medium kicker, like on the J 8 3 flop with something like JT or QJ.

But watching some coaching videos and stuff , good players rather 3bet pocket pairs like that , at least 66-88 from the blinds, so I started to play a little more agressive, started to 3bet a lot more against stealers, but cheching my pokertracker stats, it seems I`m missing the real value, most of time I take the pot preflop, sometimes with conti-bet on the flop and of course sometimes get in trouble, but still it seems just calling for set value is more profitable..

What`s your opinion about this?

Thanks a lot!