Quote Originally Posted by daven View Post
open-fold pre. Easy game. Don't even think about trying to balance your EP open-limping range. You could raise pre if you want to i guess. But don't. Once he raises and the other callers join in you obviously have to call.

flop and you can either raise or call - if you're going to raise then at least raise a decent amount, as played you're giving bb direct pot odds to call if he does indeed have a flush draw. Once the 3b happens you're obviously getting it in vs 88/JJ+/AJ/KJ
Yeah, I think it was bad to open limp with 33. When I mentioned balance, I meant should I have opened 33 for a raise, instead of limping.

I do play 2NL and a standard open raise of 3.5BB from UTG is usually folded all the way around and treated like QQ,KK,AA,AK. People seem to only call with hands that beat that range.

Should I expand my open raise range to maybe include JJ,TT? And then not have an open limping range? Or should I keep the range tight and flip a coin whether I limp or raise?