They deserve to be cracked.


I have had my ass handed to me twice today by limpers.


Dude limped in with pocket kings – I had AQ and hit top pair with ace kicker. I would have really loved to laugh aloud at him if I had cracked his kings. That’s just asking for some ace rag to limp in and crack your high pair.

I don’t have the balls to limp in with any pair about tens. Like I’ll limp in with tens and below a bunch, but above that is just asking for trouble.

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there is some very good fundamental strategy in this op, everyone should take notice.

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Limping is can be a strategic move.

Some people limp in with high pocket pairs because it’s part of their strategy to trap or confuse a player - very simple.

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Limping AA pre flop is +EV

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raising and re-raising AA PF = more +ev

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Limp-reraising kills your action.

I just open raise.

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I agree completely

Wow, that never happens.

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Last night I was playing in a tourney when I caught QQ. I had been playing aggressively with high pairs for a while so I just raised the BB 2x, he thought about it for a minute then he called. The flop comes AQ10, I push with my remaining chips..and he calls again. He shows a K6 to my set, what happens on the tun, a J. Most of the time limping hurts my stack but when i raise with a pocket pair, I usually have someone with any A call and catch their A. So either way its been hit and miss for me.

You gotta watch out for those all-broadway flops. That's just not a good flop for your set. When that happens, you should probably just checkabout half the time, as opposed to having a default of 'shove' or 'bet large'. And yes, that means you're going to throw the set away some times.