I hate limping strong hands for deception. Id sooner be raising A2o, K6s, 22 etc than having to sometimes limp in AJs - especially when I'm not expecting to be playing a lot of hands with my opponent headsup.


That being said, if my opponent is passive in the blinds preflop and they dont really raise me much, I make a huge profit limping in for 1/3 SB, and betting the flop 100% of the time if they are capable of folding on the flop a decent % of the time.

As it stands though, against somewhat aggro opponents ive been either raising or folding preflop here, since Id rather just skip the variance associated with playing 8 hands of HU with someone.


Further thoughts:
If you are willing to limp 2-7o because of your implied odds, it makes no difference what the structure is once youve paid and the other guy raises. His raise effectively makes a 1-shot hand where you both have to pay the same double big blinds and he's in position. So it seems that by limping in, you give him the option of eliminating your good implied odds, which is the very reason for you being in the hand in the first place. If he can exercise that option liberally, I would rather not give it to him at all.