Quote Originally Posted by Renton
if all your small pairs are losing, you must seriously be getting killed at this limit. Maybe you should beat up on 1/2 a little more.
It could be bad luck. These pairs often need to both hit a set AND get paid AND hold up the way most people play them. Hence, you really have to look at the entire group of hands instead of a particularl one over any sample less than hundreds of thousands.

That being said, I've heard of players mucking 22-55 UTG in tougher deep stacked games. As the money gets deeper and the players stop calling it all off with weak stuff, reverse implied odds and fase implied odds become a problem.