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so last night i played some 109s.

i made a decision early on in the evening. it was to play a bit of ye olde accumulator. specifically, any time i'm in one of these spots where someone pushes for 300 behind a dozen limpers at 15/30 and i'm close to closing the action, i just call with some decent calling hands. these include like, KQ, or 88.

so i made perhaps a dozen calls, some in the line of:

whole bunch of limpers to a shorty who pushes
whole bunch of limpers to me, i raise, and a shorty pushes for 3x or 2x my raise
standard trapping of shorties with big hands by me

i ran in to AK once.

it was by far the best hand i saw.

i saw 98o
i saw Q4o
i saw K3s
i saw Q9o
etc

amazingly enough, whenever they had Qx i had KQ, whenever they had 22 i had 88, whenever they had Ax i had AQ, etc. it was lots of fun.

what i wanted to tell people, especially people who play a few extra pots early, is that the wackos are out. if you haven't been noticing the wackos, you're missing out. spite call the [censored] out of them. post your spite calls here!

oh, another one of my favorites are these people who push for their "last 400" at 10/15, and when you call with 88 you're ahead by a mile because they "pushed with Ax to try to double up."

c

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yep...pretty standard. Just wanted to point out that they arent as "wacko" as they seem. Especially when they are on the short side and 3 or 4 limpers come in. It stands to reason that the first limper will have the best hand in their mind, and, at the same time, will have the most difficulty calling the shorty's push because of the other limpers yet to act. At the same time, the shorty will assume that the "last limper in" will typically have one of the weaker hands of the group, and though hypothetically closing the action if the first three limpers fold to the shorty's push, will have trouble calling because they only limped because of the umbrella effect.

This is why I like limping hands like AQ, 88 etc after a few limpers in midgame when there is a shorty in the blinds. Instead of raising myself, I get many opps to call a short push with some dead money to soften the blow. And like you said, I will often be miles ahead as well.