Set Mining

Tips for Set-Mining in NL Holdem

Set-Mining = Playing pocket pairs pre-flop hoping to catch a set on the flop.

Set mining in poker is when you call a raise preflop, usually with a small or mid pocket pair such as 22, 33, 44, 55, 66, 77, 88 or 99, with the sole intent of trying to flop a set (three of a kind), and win a big pot. But many people make the mistake of not set mining with the right odds. Cryptocurrency Miners Gobble Up NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 30 Laptops, Set up Massive Ethereum GPU Mining Farm in China. Due to the explosion in the rate of Ethereum since last year, GPU mining has once.

Set mining is a favourite past-time for a lot of players in NL Holdem and its very obvious why. It’s extremely exciting waiting to catch that set on the flop, and to the unsuspected opponents these hands can be very rewarding when you successfully hit your set.

However there are a few problems and limits to set-mining that new players need to be aware off. So much of the value from set-mining comes from implied odds and in this article I’ll cover all of these.

Conditions for Set-Mining

First of all the odds of you hitting a set on the flop are about 9%. This means you need pot odds of 8:1 minimum to call.

However we can also look at other conditions for playing pocket pairs. The more short-stack players in the hand the better your implied odds will be. This is when you catch your set small stack opponents are far more likely to become pot-committed and call you all-in. On contrast big stacks are bad players to set mine against because they will fold far more hands post-flop and not call you off as big.

You also need to know the range of hands you opponents are playing and subsequently how loose or tight they are. It’s far more profitable set-mining against tight-opponents because they’ll pay you off better with premium hands post-flop, for example a player with AK who catches his Ace is more likely to pay you. You’ll find it harder getting loose players limping lightly calling you off post-flop because unless they hit their monsters they’re nearly always folding, for example someone with 6h-7h isn’t going to call raises on a As-Jh-4d board.

Calling Raises Pre-Flop

You always want to limp into pots cheaply (unless you’re stealing from late position), however you can still afford to call pre-flop raises when set-mining, even more so when in position. For example if someone raises 3xBBs pre-flop and there’s already 3 callers behind me then I’m definitely flat-calling too. What’s more I actually think it’s better having more players in a raised pre-flop pot because this ensures a higher quality of cards e.g. QJ AJ 1010 etc. These will pay you off better post-flop.

Calling 3Bets Pre-Flop

You can’t afford to call 3bets out of position with low-mid pocket pairs. You can only call 3bets in position and with two or more players in the pot. Along with this you need to have a stack above 100BBs and multiple opponents with big stacks to get paid off properly.

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Set mining in tournaments is an art in and of itself. You are
going to have scenarios where set mining is right and
profitable, but there will also be endless spots where the
numbers won’t justify moving forward. It’s often stated that
poker is a game of numbers and math. While the actual math
involved in poker, as it relates to skill, is often greatly
overstated, set mining is one of the plays that relies on it the
most. If you are unable to make some basic calculations as to
your chances of hitting and getting paid off with a set, you may
as well not play any small or middle pairs at all. Sure, pairs
have natural value, but they usually require significantly
improved strength if they want a chance at taking down a huge
pot.

Tournament play tends to create three different types of
stack sizes. There are times (like the beginning of an event)
where you have several hundred big blinds and can play many
hands without real risk to a good portion of your stack. The
next type of stack size will fall somewhere in between large and
small. It’s in these levels that you can play a lot of pots,
but you still need to be selective.

The last and final type of
stack in tournaments is small or even micro sized. When you have
a small stack, it means that you are hanging on by a thread.
You really need something to happen or you are likely to go
broke. Given this information, this article is going to analyze
the viability of and approach to set mining within these three
dimensions.

Set Mining with a Huge Stack

Set mining with a huge stack is going to be the most relaxing
time to ever play your pocket pairs. Your investment is going to
be small relative to your potential, a loss will not hurt you,
and you have the advantage in just about every way imaginable.
Now, the important thing to remember is that a huge stack (and
any other stack) is going to be in relation to your opponents.
If a tournament has just begun, you are really just average. The
potential in set mining lies in your ability to get all of the
money in the middle. If you are playing with hundreds of big
blinds but don’t have a real lead over your opponents, this is usually going
to require a big bluff or a cooler. When you do truly have a
lead, however, things are going to be much easier.

Let’s say that you are one of the chip leads mid-way through
a tournament. When you have a pocket pair, set mining is going
to require little more than playing slow pre-flop and slow
post-flop, regardless of whether or not you hit a hand. Your
stack size will enable you with the opportunity to call down
bets even if you don’t improve, which is one of the biggest
assets to set mining with more chips than other players.

Likewise, players will be more inclined to stack off if they are
short compared to you when you do manage to land a set. As
backwards as it might seem, a huge stack can often times allow
for the most passive approach (when you include missed sets). A
huge stack should allow you to win big pots, but it doesn’t
necessarily mean that you should always be playing big pots, and
there is a difference. Like anything else in poker, carefully
picking your spots is key.

Set Mining with a Moderate Stack

Set mining with a moderate stack is both the trickiest and
the easiest time to play pocket pairs. The reason for this is
that you’ll have few pre-flop options and that giving up
post-flop will be easy to do. Without the luxury of chips to
spare, you aren’t going to need to even consider the idea of
floating other players’ bets. If you call a raise pre-flop and
end up totally bricking the board, folding to most bets will
become second nature.

As cut and dry as this might appear, it’s worth noting that
sometimes you’ll still need to change gears and be aggressive.
Missing a set doesn’t always mean that you should give up. If a
player, especially one with a big stack in a tournament, seems
to be making continuation bets over and over, shoving to a flop
bet could very well make sense. Of course, this is heavily
reliant on the texture of the flop and so on and so forth.
Though messing around and getting fancy is usually a bad idea,
there are definitely some situations where creative play is
worth looking into.

Set Mining with a Small Stack

Set mining with a small stack is all but impossible to do.
The very premise of effective and profitable set mining calls
for proper pot odds and implied pot odds. If you are playing
with just a few big blinds, this is going to be irrelevant,
because
most everyone at your table will have you covered. In fact, you
won’t even be able to cover your odds with the amount of blinds
that you have left. For example, if you have 8 big blinds and a
player raises 3x, calling the bet with the intention of set
mining is flawed because you have next to no room to fold on the
flop. With a small or micro sized stack, set mining should be
converted into pushing or folding.

Set Mining Poker

With all of that said, there’s a possibility that limping
would allow for set mining. If you are in late position with 11
big blinds and several players limp ahead, calling the bet could
set you up for a great double up opportunity. You are unlikely
to get all folds if you shove now, you have position post-flop,
and you can even give up if you miss and face bets. The reason
that set mining would work here is because nothing else really
does. It’s not so much that chasing after a set makes a lot of
sense in and of itself, but that the other options are worse.
Sometimes you just have to pick the best of the worst, and this
will be a recurring theme when you are nursing a short stack.