One limper in late position?

[TripleH68]

Full table of ten players. Folded around to CO. CO limps...

For a good player...is there ever a reason to limp from late position rather than open-raise? Perhaps the answer is obvious, but this situation has been coming up a lot lately...so I throw it out to you...

Thanks in advance.

[bsk1999]

Only if:
1) you want to keep the button, small blind and/or big blind in, hoping they will call flop and/or turn bets. I will do this with AA and KK to try and get some action on the flop
2) or, you suck.

[Trix]

Not often enough to worry about it imo.

[MoreWineII]

Hardly ever. That's pretty much raise or fold country.

[balkii]

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Only if:
1) you want to keep the button, small blind and/or big blind in, hoping they will call flop and/or turn bets. I will do this with AA and KK to try and get some action on the flop
2) or, you suck.

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Note that options 1 and 2 are *NOT* mutually exclusive...