Straight
Join Date: Sep 2006
Posts: 171
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I probably limp too much. I will certainly call after a few limpers with a low PP and good drawing hands. And I'll even open-limp pretty often.
I never used to do this. Then I read NL T and P by Sklansky. He really likes limping and makes some good arguments for it.
I think the problem here is that in short-handed limping is alot less useful. I wanted to integrate limping as a tool in my overal aresenal because it just makes your game so much more varied and unpredictable. Also, Sklansky makes a good point that limping is often profitable against weak opponents because they suck so much postflop that you want to see as many flops as you can against them. Those two thoughts led to me trying out limping in my game.
I'd limp with AJ on the button so I'd get AT-A2 to call and think they have the best hand. And I started to sometimes limp AA/AK/KK from EP to reraise, and I'd also reraise 78s from that position as well if people were raising me often.
I think this is is bad short-handed, and I've quit it now.
I still open-limp occasionally, and with enough hands to make my play not predictable. But I don't do it nearly as much now as I did 4k hands ago.
If I had to guess, my stats over the last 2k hands are probably more like 23/15.
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