Play a Hand With the Masters #2 Pre-Flop

[Cactus Jack]

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I've seen several people mention limping to disguise the strength of their hand.

I really don't understand this.

Your entering the pot from UTG. What range do you expect people to put you on? If your playing a bunch of hands from UTG with only 20-30BB it's not really going to matter how you play AK.

AK is on the weak end of your UTG holdings(or should be) so disguising it as weak really doesn't make sense to me.

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Frankly, at this stage of an online tourney, I'm not expecting them to be putting me on any range of hand. There may be a couple of people at the table who are capable of doing it, and hopefully I've indentified them so if they raise, I know what range they may be on.

My range UTG in this spot would be AA, KK, QQ, AK, AQs. The latter two I limp, the first three I raise. I feel this is way too early to be putting my tourney life on the line. Not always, and taking the standard line has often been painful. (Once too often calling an idiot who played 76o a round ago and running into a set when you're all in with AK reinforces the pain of being overly aggressive.)

That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

CJ