Open limping

If the answer is yes, please discuss hand ranges.

Total noob, but I'll try to get as cheap a flop as possible with PPs below JJ. Have lately been following AOKrongly's 19 hands strategy and have also been limping with easily dominated stuff like KJ.

I will open limp from EP with 22-99(100%) and A2s-A9s (50%).

I think limping with the A/rag may be a leak.

I posted this because lambchop wrong in a Beginner's Circle thread yesterday that you should NEVER open limp. (And he said never.)

I open limp from EP with 22-77, KQs and QJs. I think the last two may be leaks, but I try to play them for straight/flush potential and often fold them to LP raises, depending on reads.

At microstakes openlimping small pairs is good.

Other than that openlimping sucks IMO.

small pocket pairs, suited connectors, suited gappers.

This really should be in the "beginners section" as I'm sure open limping at stakes higher than $25NL is a recipe for dissaster.

At a loose table I will open limp anything that I would normally play except 99/TT+ (AK/AQ/88/99 are about 50/50 between raising and limping). That means suited connectors, low pp, any two cards J or higher (QJ+). I'll do this in early position and sometimes to mid-position.

I think openlimping small pairs in EP is acceptable at 50nl and below, and maybe even at 100nl.

At the stakes I play (100nl/200nl/400nl) I raise all pairs and cbet all heads up flops and it works for me.

If you open limp and miss your set with 22-66 your best be is to check/fold. You didn't raise PF so you don't have much postflop credibility. Remember you aren't betting the flop because you have a pair, you are betting it to represent top pair or overpair. Your pair is just backup in case he calls with a draw.

I like open limping AA from EP because it can be played like a set against a raiser.

I once tried mixing in 20% limps with AA in EP.

Literally every time I did it it limped all the way around.

Never again will I try that.

Zook: Why does it look like a leak? I figure since I do it for such a broad range of hands it would be impossible to put me on anything. Also, it keeps me from feeling obligated to c-bet or stay invovled with hands when I've missed the flop. I've actually had very good success trying this out over the last 2-3K hands. (Not that that's worth anything).

I'll agree with everything you've said and caveat my prior claims with the following:
SCs I play very infrequently in any position, but if I play them EP I'll limp. (I'm beginning to sour on SC in general, but that's a different post.)

I figure that if I have TPTK+ I'm good for about 2/3+ pot bet, plus there are still usually 1-2 people acting after the flop before me. So I won't fire away without something solid. The post flop decisions are usually easy, if I'm on a draw to the nuts I'll take a card if it's priced right (or I'll try and price it myself, if possible). If I have TPTK/2 pair I'll bet as if I'm front until someone tells me otherwise. I'll check/fold under all other conditions.

I will limp 22-99 from EP up to MP2 then i will open for a raise with any hand i wan't to play from MP2 and beyond.

I open push all hands

I would normally never open limp. However I played on Party a bit recently and often the PFR of tables was so low that I could be fairly confident of not getting raised. I would sometimes open limp drawing hands like SCs and gappers. I did it very rarely.

The plan for profit was to only play for 2 pair or higher, or to bet out my opponents if there were only a couple of really weak players in the hand.

I'd never seen tables that passive before, so I doubt I'll be trying it again.

nice 1 year bump.

my basic strategy - if I don't think raising would be +ev I'd rather just fold it. it's good having more ways to win than just making a hand, and like was said, I don't want to have to balance by limping AA pre flop and whatnot.

but I have exceptions for longshot hands like a SC or low PP, such as:
too many ppl are post flop call stations
most are short stacks that suck post flop, who might overreact to a raise pre flop
my image sucks too much to raise pre flop, but I'll get action if I hit post flop

Funny bump. 9 months later and 2 levels higher, I never open limp. Just shows to go ya.

NEVER OPEN LIMP (Unless you play 50NL or below in which case you should open limp 88-22).

LOL @ never open-limping.

Limp when the situation warrants. Limp when it will get you what you want. .

Put it this way. It's folded to you on the button. You have rockets.
You know the BB always pushes when someone tries to limp to his BB.
Are you telling me it's wrong to open-limp here?

Right, so there's one situation when you would. Go forth and find more.

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