Is there any reason to open limp UTG?

[Little Lew]

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couldn't agree more! .... stick to pocket pairs, catch a cheat flop playing for a set. a 55,44,66,etc. is a lot easier to get away from then an AQ or AJ. ...... Thats why pocket pairs that turn into sets (although few and far between) are great from UTG because you can break those players with marginal hands playing them strongly because of there postion.

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Just came back from AC and my experience there was typical of prior visits. The tables are often very loose, very very passive and small pocket pairs can be limped for a single bet with almost a certainty that the bet will be called around to the BB. [In fact, my best pot of the day was flopped FH 6s/Ks with PP 6s that almost gave my opponent with Trip Ks a stroke.]


I am not as comfortable doing this on-line as most times the games are not quite as passive or loose I will have found that I will have to pay a raise about half the time with fewer players.