Limping A10o

[Isura]

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UTG was fairly solid/tricky player.


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Fold preflop, then.

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Folding is the worst. Calling is okay if you think UTG is limping with many hands that dominate you. ATo plays well with position against 1 UTG limper.

[istewart]

How does it play well if he's tight and tricky? I see him limping with tons of hands you'd rather not be up against.

I'm not asking this rhetorically; it's a serious question.

EDIT 2: I can see raising as a very viable option given the read, but I think calling is really pretty bad and worse than folding. Wrong here?

[Isura]

What hands don't you want to see from a good player who limps UTG? AQ-AJ, JJ-TT if he's passive preflop. More likely 99-66, suited broadways. I don't think you get trapped often enough with monsters to fear raising ATo against 1 UTG limper. I think you are undervaluing the high card strength of AT in a short-handed situation.

[thesharpie]

Raise preflop. As you didn't raise preflop fold the flop, pot's too tiny to worry about.

[thesharpie]

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You should put your read of UTG in the original post. Otherwise we don't know why you limped.

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Also it makes people who post blindly after 10 replies look stupid. [img]/images/graemlins/mad.gif[/img]

[imported_leader]

I think 3-betting the flop makes your life much easier here because if it comes two to you on the turn after you 3-bet the flop it's an easy fold.

[aK13]

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I think 3-betting the flop makes your life much easier here because if it comes two to you on the turn after you 3-bet the flop it's an easy fold.

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This seems very much like chip spewing.

I was thinking about this earlier, I fold the flop. A bet and a raise back to me when the pot is small when all I have is TPMK -- I have a hard time feeling like MHIG.