Sniffing out the UTG Limp Reraise

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I often use this mentality against my opponents.
I will often limp UTG with marginal cards and then play them strong from that point. Obviously discretion has to be used, but its a good tool for anyone's game.

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I did this the other day. I made a marginal call deep stacked UTG with 89s, everyone folded around to the bb, who checked, then checked to me on the flop with it being AQ6, I bet he folded. Other times though I'll get alot of other limpers also, and I have done the limp reraise thing before, but very rarely, I'd rather make a bet and go from there, alot of people think it's supposed to be slow played from there so fast playing it there confuses them.

[Melchiades]

Am I the only one who sees 77-99 a lot of the time as well? In low buy in MTT and STT.

[dogsballs]

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Actually earlier today, I saw a version that I hadn't seen before. UTG limps, folds around to guy on button who makes a 4x size raise, both blinds fold, and UTG goes all in for about 15bb's. Button instacalls and button turns over AA against UTG's QQ.

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Were you on my table in teh Party Aussie sat? That happened exactly to me. I was AA...but a Q flopped.

[McMelchior]

Reads and context matters.

In the Stars' low buy-in re-buys and turbo-re-buy-satellites I see UTG limp/push more often than not with close to random cards like QT, JT etc.

As other posters already said, in the non-re-buys AA and KK are pretty safe bets, and unless there are strong reads against it it's a must fold.

JustPlaying doesn't state the size of the stacks button and SB hold, but with odds 2:1 that overcards to his TT will flop - leaving him in a quandary two thirds of the time his raise gets called, and not that much wiser when only lower cards flop - I strongly believe the raise is -EV.

Best,

McMelchior (Johan)