preserve tight image?

[syka16]

should I open limp with AQ 77-TT on the button on level 1 to avoid getting the image as a blind stealer? ...I play 22 T1500 sngs

[valenzuela]

like anyone will remember that u limped once in level 1...

[bluefeet]

If you're true to your image, you won't be playing many hands early anyway. A couple non-completed SB's will make up for an occasional raise. No way, I'm letting blinds in for free with any of these hands. When BB slow plays his twice-inside flopped nut rag straight into your TPTK on the turn...you're less than 10BB remaining will make your table image academic anyway.

I do appreciate the concern...something I try regularly to present. Not wildly accepted I suppose, but this is why I occasionally show hands early. Granted you might scare away some of the early action, but I find that the "nice guy. plays big hands" image pays great dividends L4+...and the occasional bluff on large multi-way early pots.