Re: Limping with AA/KK in EP: Always, sometimes, never?
A key problem with limp reraising has been missed.
In a loose passive game if you raise 4-5x in EP and get a bundle of callers, ergo the problem. But in this kind of a game if you limp you are unlikely to get the chance to reraise. Most likely you limp, and 8 people see the flop of JT4 two suited. Yeah the pot's smaller, but now it will be even more impossible to figure out where you stand. Now JT and T4 and J4 and baby flush and straight draws out the wazoo are all real possibilities (especially from the blinds). It's a zoo and your reverse implied odds are sky high.
It would be easier if I'd raised 5x, gotten 3 callers and seen this flop. I at least have some idea of their holdings. My only real fear is JJ or TT. If someone called my pf raise with JT or 44 OK, but I still don't have to stack off to them. More often this is where I value bet the pants off of AJ, or just take it down with a flop bet.
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