[cpk]

These are my rules for limping in limit:

1. When a game that is otherwise good but a little bit tight. Open-raising often tightens up games. When this has happened, you can usually loosen them up by limping with your hands that can handle multi-way action. I would also open-limp in MP, but not in LP.

You'd do this only if you preferred a looser game. Some people like tight games just fine.

2. In soft games, you can limp with a lot of speculative hands in EP. Nothing wrong with that. They can stand a raise if there are a lot of people in the pot, but you really don't know how many people there are going to be, so you just limp.

3. In games where people will read you for weakness and isolate you when you limp, there is something to be said for adopting a strategy where you limp-reraise with some hands limp-call with others, and open-raise with the rest. This allows you to play all the profitable hands from both EP and MP without being punished for limping, and you also disguise your holding. There used to be a really good page online with such a strategy laid out, but it appears to be gone.