Quote Originally Posted by spoonitnow
In the NLHE games you'll play, it's almost never going to be the best play to limp. In something like Limit Omaha 8 or better, it's different and you can limp a lot.
spoon, i'm surprised you didn't link him to one of your many awesome articles yourself: http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/...rs-t66631.html

the examples discussed here are like the only time i ever utilize limping, and i'd be surprised if i searched my PT3 database and found any more than a handful of times that i limped in 6max (and at least half of those handfuls are misclicks with AA).

not saying that just 'cause i don't do it at 6m, or just 'cause spoon's example in that link is the ONLY time i do it, doesn't mean that it's THE ONLY TIME it's ever the most EV play (i actually do a lot of open limping in BM poker because the game's so passive), but sufficed to say you can get by a long long time in poker without ever having to learn ways to use limping as a weapon.

in fact, you can get up to 25nl pretty much without ever flatting a raise, especially OOP. you'll be missing out on value for sure, but i'm pretty sure there are like zero 2nl regs (2p2ers, FTRer's, whatever) who actually run a profit off of cold calling preflop because they're not good at putting players on ranges yet (even when they're thin ranges) and they either play super fit or fold and fold 60% of flops when their AQ doesn't hit or they spew like crazy

god i ramble in these threads