Family pot, you're in the big blind, raise to create dead money?

[beekeeper]

This is a general question for small-stakes, B&M, NL hold'em games.

Strategy question for this scenario:

You are in the big blind, and several players limp in, so that there are many players and an unraised pot when it gets to you.

First, what size bet (1 bet=BB) will it take to get most of the limpers out and create dead money?

Secondly, with what kinds of hands to you want to raise?

I assume that you would just check if you held these kinds of hands: small suited connectors, Ax (small), small pairs. Is this assumption wrong?

Thanks.

[sekrah]

Only premiums.. A-K, A-Q, big pairs. Raise to 6x or 7x BB

[slickterp]

i would cautiously raise any A9 and higher, KQs, KJs, and pocket 8's and higher. i think you need to raise at least 5x the BB to be effective in knocking out limpers, but be wary of callers, depending on stakes, it is surprising what some will call with.

[amoeba]

it is highly table dependent.

and you want to raise something like 7x to 8x bb. at some tables, I've gone as high as 10 or 15x.


also read this

http://www.twoplustwo.com/magazine/issue5/sklansky0505.html

although it usually apply to the stakes you are probably playing at.

[beekeeper]

Thanks for the feedback.

Thanks Amoeba for the link--the article is great, lots of information.