Is limping aces from all positions a NL $25 trend... (lc)

I've noticed that about 3 out of 10 NL $25 players are limping aces from all positions into multi-way pots. This is a far cry from what i noticed when I was a NL $10 player and people would push all-in with AA, KK, QQ or JJ.

Seems like NL 25 players are trying to be 'tricky'. Rather than expanding the hands they're willing to raise with they decide to limp big pairs for deception value. I could see doing this heads up or shorthanded but in a multi-way pot it seems like suicide.

They do it in $50NL as well. They also will push w/77 and call down obviously dominated pockets, so I'm not sure whether tricky is the right name. Oddly enough, I've seen people raise 8xBB w/88 and go to the felt on an AKx board. Then two hands later, after reloading, limp AKs, catch TPTK on a dry board and then fumble around making weird bets and either overbetting or checking to the river.

I just tack their play up to being drunk, although, when I'm drunk, playing poker online by myself isn't what I want to. If I am going to get drunk and play poker, its gotta be live, if for no other reason that I can throw cards at friends when they suck out on me.

[beavens]

and you can punch them!

[4_2_it]

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in a multi-way pot it issuicide.

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FYP

Be happy they are making a mistake by letting you see a cheap flop. Remember, don't get too excited about TPTK in a multiway pot. HU it is a monster, multi-way it is probably 3rd best if unimproved by the river.

The only time I don't raise AA is when my pre-flop raises are getting too much respect (i.e last three or four resulted in entire table folding). I think my pre-flop raise percentage with AA is over 99% and my win rate is over 85% so I must be doing something right [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

No no, I'm being serious. Some friends and I started throwing cards at each other as a joke, but when we started getting good enough it hurt, we started throwing them at/in the wall. The night started blurring at that point, but when we woke up and found a really really really marked deck, some welts that even thrown cards couldn't explain, and such scattered piles of chips that no one had any idea how much money they were supposed to have, we all just took our buy-in back and went to Denny's. And... I think I've hijacked a lc content post into a nc post, sorry.

But yes, people get squirrely around pocket pairs and do really weird things. Which is funny when you can throw cards and not so funny when their limped/passively played AA does in fact beat your TPTK.

[pho75]

I always make a note of people who do this. I find that people that do it, do it every time. Likewise, most people who raise with their big pairs, do it every time. It's valuable information.

Only time I limp with AA is usually UTG or UTG+1 and only when I am damn confident that the table is loose, and someone will raise and possible a reraise before it gets back to me. If this situation occurs, you might have a chance playing 2nd best hand (in theory). If you limp AA, you better damn sure be able to fold AA. If you get cant fold it, better get as much money in preflop as possible.

I still raise with AA 95% of the time..over my history of PT.

That is true. They are rather habitual about it. And they often go crazy if they get reraised, like a RR from 5xBB to 20-30xBB. Oddly enough, I've also noticed they will open raise 77 for 14xBB but will limp AA/KK/AKs. As I said... their pattern most closely resembles being drunk.