losing $0.10, a few questions

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The spread on my 19/10 stat is so wide because I've been posting the sb after limpers, figuring I'm getting 5:1 odds or better (brainwashed by a Gus Hansen book)

Think of it like this. While you are getting relatively good pot odds, you have the absolute worst position at the table as you will act first postflop on every street. Because of this, you can't just go crazy calling raises and limping in with a very wide range, just for the reasoning that it costs you less.

If players limper before you, then sure, it's perfectly fine to limp in with a hand that is going to play well postflop in a multiway pot (think small pairs, suited connectors, Axs, etc). Doesn't mean you should be limping your 73o, 92o, Q5o, etc type hands.

With regards to calling raises out of the small blind, because you are OOP, you are going to play relatively tight from that position.

With big hands preflop I often just call raises from TAGGs with the rationale that they're likely to fold if I reraise, and if they call or reraise they likely have AA or KK, so I might as well see a flop with their range still a little wider so that maybe I can hit, and the pot is still small so easier from me to get away from if they fire at the flop. Am I wrong here?

Yes and no. You shouldn't just lump all players in a TAGG category, and treat them equally. Some players will call a 3bet (re-raise) with a wider range that others, and thus 3betting them with your big hands become more profitable than the other players. If they are going to fold an exorbitant amount of the time to a 3bet, then calling with big hands might be best. However, in most situations villain's are going to be more likely to make bad calls than bad folds, which is why we 3bet for value a large % of the time.

What would we know about the player that would change our decision to limp here? The text doesn't suggest what type of player would limp/raise and limp/call with those big hands. I've seen both LPASS and TAGG players do it.

You can't really know what hands someone is limp/raising or limp/calling with until you see it at showdown. However, it is somewhat of a fad among bad players to limp/raise their big pairs when they are the first in the pot in early position. This doesn't mean stop isolating bad players limping from Early Position, as they are still going to have loads of terrible hands in their limping range. Just be wary, and play appropriately when you do see them limp/raise (realize it's very likely a very strong hand, and tighten your isolating range against them in the future).

How does our idea of his range change when he checks his dead bb and calls a raise versus limp/call? Obviously limping is usually done with a slightly tighter range than checking a dead BB. Are we assuming an LPASS will call a raise in either situation, so a dead BB calling is likely to be even weaker?

When a villain posts a dead big blind, he automatically has a 100% random range including all possible hands. When he checks that dead big blind, his range is going to have a lot more weak hands than if a player voluntarily limps into the pot. Hands that he would fold instead of limping (72o, 92o, T4o, etc), are still in his range for checking his dead blind, and thus isolating them becomes way more profitable because the chances of them folding to your raise greatly increase.