I'm new to poker, excuse if I've used any poker terms wrong. I'm still learning all the lingo!

I've been curious how one should be playing low pocket pairs. Mostly at first round of betting and preflop, cause I don't think I've got the best idea on how to play them.

I'm still fairly new to online poker, so I've mostly been trying to play with tight hands and follow what I've slowly been reading. I remember reading you usually wanna go in preflop with any pocket pair really.

-So should I start with a big raise?
-Should I limp and hope for trips?
-Should I instantly fold after the flop if there is high value cards?
-Is it a good idea to call/bet if my pocket pair is lower than most of the cards on the board, but they aren't high value cards 6-9ish?

Thanks in advance for any tips and info you guys may provide!

Hmm, big topic.

I'd advise going to the Best of BQ sticky at the top of the forum. Loads of excellent articles and pretty sure there's one on PPs in the concept of the week threads that I linked there.

Opening PPs is pretty standard (don't limp, ever) but it depends so much on villains at your table, pre and postflop that it's not just a one size fits all answer to your questions

New to poker huh

If you can build the discipline to fold small pairs (22-66) in early position, you'll be ahead of the curve. There will be situations when you can play them in early position, but until you learn when those situations come up (which can only be learned with experience) it's best to fold.

The arguments for folding is that the majority of the time, you won't flop a set and you'll have an underpair to the board and won't know what to do on all three streets; the flop, turn and river. Again, you'll learn with experience, but until then just fold

As Dunna mentioned, all of your questions are dependent on reads you develop on the players you are playing against. Since you're new, you probably won't be able to develop solid reads, which is why I strongly suggest folding most of the time.

If the pot is limped, you can limp along, but you MUST fold if someone makes a big raise preflop. Also, if you don't flop a set, don't think about calling a bet on the flop, unless you make some sort of 8 out+ draw (like you're holding 66 and the flop is 345)