Hi guys,

This is a little bit of a general question but I tried to focus on one specific aspect of what I'm trying to work on.

I understand that in the early game without antes one can argue for both open raising or open folding pairs like 22-44 in UTG or UTG+1, but that it's commonly considered good to fold. Of course if it's early, pre antes but we are low, (below 15BB) we may want to open shove these hands. 

Once antes kick in and I understand pots are more worth fighting for.  Here I think open raising low pairs UTG becomes better, but that not every situation warrants it.  I get the feeling that there is a short to moderate stack size range at which it's better to still open fold tiny pairs.

If this is true I'm trying to figure out what the stack size range tends to be. I believe it begins near 18BB and goes until around 40BB.  I choose 18BB because this and above this range is the reshove size, and when people knows this it's a stack at which it feels tough to call reshoves over our 2BB open.  Then I am not sure why I choose 40BB, but I feel that somewhere aorund there it becomes easy enough to afford playing for direct and implied odds again, and sometimes we can fold to big reraises.

Is this thinking pretty decent?  I could see the answer being “No, don't open tiny pocket pairs UTG unless you have to, even post antes.”  I could also see the answer being “post antes you should start opening tiny pocket pairs UTG in almost all situations, unless there are very specific reasons, like hyper aggro tables or reshove stacks across the board.”