[jdock99]

Playing live 20-40 HE, I knew a player who I am pretty sure is a pro and a winning player who would always limp in EP with raising cards and play passively before the flop and on the flop. Then if he flopped real good or the board was unthreatening he would wait to the turn to checkraise or if things looked even a little scary he would check-call down with hands such as TPTK.

I actually liked playing with this player because he was so passive and consistent. Basically I knew to treat his early position limps preflop like a raise and not raise with hands such as AJo and just shut down on the turn/river if he called me on the flop. Although me and the other "aware" players handled this player very well, in these particular games there are plenty of aggressive, unaware players who would give him way too much action with dominated hands postflop because of his passive play preflop and on the flop. However, I do not think this player would fare well in higher games, and to the best of my knowledge he never moved up or even tried for that matter. So maybe this line has merit against aggressive unaware players such as might populate the mid limit games that Slotboom plays in and writes about.

It seems in higher limit games most of the players who "mix it up" do so by fast playing marginal hands, normally in steal situations in position, and do not do slow by slow playing strong hands out of position, although you do get the occasional limp-reraise UTG player with AA or KK.