Join Date: Nov 2004
Posts: 95
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Hi all,
Before I discovered this site I played a mixture of limit and NL at various stakes but wasn't very consistent. After discovering this site I decided to focus my live game energy on 2/4 limit and my online game time on .50/1 limit. I've now spent about 3 months hammering my local 2/4 game and I've decided to move up to 4/8 (BR is fine for 4/8).
One of the interesting differences in the 4/8 game at my local place is that the blinds are $1 and $2. That means you can limp into a hand for $2, or raise it to $6. I've only played that game 3 times now, but when the table is passive there seem to be lots of opportunities to see a flop for the $2 minimum. Does this mean I should limp with more hands than usual? The game overall is relatively tight (3-5 players max seeing the flop), so suited connectors and Axs types of hands are actually questionable in terms of pot odds, but I'm wondering if the cheap price to see the flop actually increases your implied odds enough to make limping with things like 45s profitable.
What I've been doing to this point is limping with the marginal hands and throwing them away if someone raises. In a normal blind structure game I would only fold to a single raise after limping preflop in really rare circumstances, but it seems to me in this game it might make more sense to play this way. Any thoughts?
Oh, btw, I've really been trying to take position into account on the 2/4 game, but it never seemed to matter much because the tables were so passive. In the 4/8 game I'm seeing how important position is and I'm glad I practiced being aware of it at 2/4. 
Thanks!
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