Another Preflop Poll

[GetThere1Time]

Weak tight MP limps, LPP CO limps, LAG button limps, weak tight SB completes.

I raise!

[GetThere1Time]

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I raise!

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Me too but I'm an aspiring LAG.

[Danenania]

I check this but raise 99.

[baronzeus]

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I check this but raise 99.

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[lautzutao]

Why 99 and not this?

[Nietzsche]

I check this and 99 most of the time in this situation. I raise TT always.

[Wynton]

As your raise is not going to gain you any initiative or increase the chances of people folding on the flop, isn't this purely an equity question?

[Silverback]

I check 88 and raise TT

2 limpers I raise 88

[GetThere1Time]

Just a few thoughts to add before bed. I would never raise 4 limpers with 8s in a full game but when I think about the nature of shorthanded play I think our equity is much larger vs your avg loosey limping hand range. It's not as though all these guys are holding QJ, JT, KT, etc. Loose 6 maxers limp in with crap and do it often. Q6s, 53, A2, 34s. I think raising 4 tightish/average playing limpers would be bad but when you think about some of the utter crap that these people could be holding 88 looks like the nuts and is probably a decent favorite.

I think our preflop equity is fine, but the problem for most people (including myself) is that playing a medium PP in a pot that we bloated OOP is a pain in the ass, and although it all might be slightly +EV, the reluctance to put ourself in that kind of situation has a lot of people checking and looking for a favorable flop in a smaller pot so we can better push our edges, which I can also understand. I've been playing around with both raising and checking lately with mixed results. I think it's close. Goodnight/Good morning HUSH.