The Armchair
07-23-2004, 04:11 PM
3/6 at the Taj. You have A/images/graemlins/heart.gifQ/images/graemlins/heart.gif UTG+2. Two limpers to you. Normally, you'd raise here, but...
Your left hand opponent ("LHO") is a raising machine. Truly, all he does is raise. Never calls, never folds, just raises. It's like he has a one word vocabulary, and it's "raise."
If you raise, he'll re-raise. That will almost certainly eliminate the rest of the field and make it three to five handed to see the flop (and maybe two handed, although that's unlikely given the calling stations).
If you limp, though, he'll raise -- and it'll likely be a meaningless raise. You'll get callers as you normally would, plus, you may get a re-raise (and can identify a potentially strong opponent). Otherwise, you can then limp re-raise, to which he will almost certainly response "raise," and -- well, it's hard to say how many people will see the flop.
What do you do?
Your left hand opponent ("LHO") is a raising machine. Truly, all he does is raise. Never calls, never folds, just raises. It's like he has a one word vocabulary, and it's "raise."
If you raise, he'll re-raise. That will almost certainly eliminate the rest of the field and make it three to five handed to see the flop (and maybe two handed, although that's unlikely given the calling stations).
If you limp, though, he'll raise -- and it'll likely be a meaningless raise. You'll get callers as you normally would, plus, you may get a re-raise (and can identify a potentially strong opponent). Otherwise, you can then limp re-raise, to which he will almost certainly response "raise," and -- well, it's hard to say how many people will see the flop.
What do you do?