A hand like this...

[Random_Hero]

How do you play these? Low PP (4-4 - 7-7) on the Button. No real reads on villain. Is it worth a call here?

$6.50 Turbo...

PokerStars Game #10558637792: Tournament #53486206, $6.00+$0.50 Hold'em No Limit - Level III (25/50) - 2007/06/22 - 04:11:04 (ET)
Table '53486206 1' 9-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 2: 86reaper (1395 in chips)
Seat 3: gazzelle (1615 in chips)
Seat 4: rickman1 (1080 in chips)
Seat 6: RandomHero83 (2940 in chips)
Seat 7: waki219 (2940 in chips)
Seat 8: bulldogface (2050 in chips)
Seat 9: warbuxx (1480 in chips)
waki219: posts small blind 25
bulldogface: posts big blind 50
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RandomHero83 [5s 5c]
warbuxx: raises 100 to 150
86reaper: folds
gazzelle: folds
rickman1: folds
RandomHero83: ???

[Random_Hero]

Hers another spot, this time from SB, same game facing a min raise from same oppo.

PokerStars Game #10558684618: Tournament #53486206, $6.00+$0.50 Hold'em No Limit - Level V (75/150) - 2007/06/22 - 04:18:54 (ET)
Table '53486206 1' 9-max Seat #4 is the button
Seat 2: 86reaper (1545 in chips)
Seat 3: gazzelle (1815 in chips)
Seat 4: rickman1 (630 in chips)
Seat 6: RandomHero83 (2290 in chips)
Seat 7: waki219 (3015 in chips)
Seat 8: bulldogface (2400 in chips)
Seat 9: warbuxx (1805 in chips)
RandomHero83: posts small blind 75
waki219: posts big blind 150
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RandomHero83 [5h 5d]
bulldogface: folds
warbuxx: raises 150 to 300
86reaper: folds
gazzelle: folds
rickman1: folds
RandomHero83: ???

[bjsaust]

No, you dont have odds to call with those. Its either a push over or a fold. First one I might have said push over, but I always tend to respect a raise from UTG. 2nd one is tough, that min-raise is either a strong hand or a weak hand. I probably fold to that.

I dunno, seems when I have AK and I call a push over and they have small pocket pairs they normally win, but when I have small pocket pairs and push over they have bigger pairs or AK and hit their outs.

[taipan168]

I fold both no problems at all.

[Random_Hero]

Ok thanks guys. I sometimes wonder how to play these at later blind levels. Problem solved

[bjsaust]

I've been thinking about this overnight. I think its almost always a fold (exception being with lots of chips v's smallstack).

I was influenced by the fact I've been AI with AK against small PP a few times and lost, which is ok because the odds are on their side. That said, thats on an exact range of AK, since you're putting them on a proper range your hand is behind a lot of that range and flipping with the rest, making it a bad move.