What I have found at the lower levels, and I know I will get pounded for this...I open limp a lot with lower pocket pairs 22-99, only in the first 4 levels.

Here is my reasoning...at the lower levels, I play mostly $1.40 and $2.20(90 people) and $4.40(180 people) sit n go's on stars, three things will happen.

I limp in a we pick up other limpers, if we hit a set, we tend to get the least value for the set in this situation. If we miss, fold and move on. Cheap though...

I limp and get reraised, they were going to re-raise anyway and they dont want to scare us away, limp in for 30, raised to 90 or 120, perfect! I feel like I get the most value when I hit my set in this situation, they have a high pocket pair or A-K through A-J and we get all their chips : ) When I lead out for 90 and get reraised for 180 or 270, it makes it harder to make that call especially when we have 1500 or 2000 chips

If the raiser get re-raised or if someone pushes all in with thier A-10, lol, (remember this is lower levels), it is an easy fold and move on.

But maybe this is the completely the wrong play when moving up to higher levels. I have final tabled a lot of the $1.40 sit n gos(about 40%) and taken down(33% of those), small sample size of 27. But I just started playing the $4.40 and only have one final table in 6 tries(5th place). So maybe I am wrong. I am going to start playing more $2.20, may have moved up too fast.

With suited connectors and one gappers and suited ace rags, I never limp in because I will fold before entering a pot with these hands, especially since I really only like to play them in late position and really want others in the pot. Again, this all changes when the BB hits $150