Open limping with Suited Aces and low pocket pairs?
Can i open limp these 2 hands? I prefer limp/calling over raising with these types of hands.
Also open limps tend to set off a chain reaction of limps, at 1/2, and these hands play very well multi-way.
Also the 1/2 game I play is uncapped, so the stacks are usually deep, giving me great implied odds when i hit my sets and nut flushes.
I think I should limp these hands in EP/MP. LP Just raise them.
Open limp > Open raise? (At least in early position)
Also side question, why is open limping seen as terrible, but limping behind is seen as okay? Whats the difference?
Limping with small-to-medium pairs is -EV and a pretty big leak, since it's just a variant of poker bingo. Also, the risk of set-over-set is real, even though TAGfish will call that a "cooler."
My default now is to just fold small-mid PPs unless:
1. I'm in late position,
2. I don't want to raise, and
3. I don't think it'll be raised behind me.
Tell me you haven't ever played against a drunk guy on the strip who shoves high card on the flop because they think they have a straight or want to make a BIG BLUFF like they do in the movies,
without telling you haven't ever played against a drunk guy on the strip who shoves high card on the flop because they think they have a straight or want to make a BIG BLUFF like they do in the movies.
Put a better way in old school words.....
Limping small pocket pairs early in a low limit game infested with bad players has much higher IMPLIED ODDS than it does in a higher limit game populated with at least decent players.
Also, in higher limit games with better players if you miss hitting your set you are playing small pocket pairs with multiple probable overcards out of position against decent players. Terrible place to be and not likely to be a moneymaker.
In a game with worse players, the penalty of having to play a small pocket pair out of position without hitting a set is much less burdensome. In Beginner type games, limping pocket pairs early isn't likely to be -EV unless there are extenuating circumstances.
