Do you ever open limp?

[Seadood228]

I open limp more than I should, typically from EP and LP, with a variety of hands. Of course most of the time it's during the deepstack portion of the tourney, but I'll occaisionally do it in other spots.

[Toro]

You mean you wouldn't open limp with 55? I want to see the flop as cheap as possible with this hand because if I don't flop a set I'm pretty much done with it.

[bugstud]

opening limping on the button pwns

[A_Junglen]

Early on I'll generally open limp with a variety of hands. Small pairs and suited connectors, and sometimes *gasp* A-A.

#Game No : 2758059530
***** Hand History for Game 2758059530 *****
NL Texas Hold'em Trny:15977492 Level:1 Blinds (10/15) - Thursday, September 22, 21:15:12 EDT 2005
Table Super Thursday(465223) Table #88 (Real Money)
Seat 7 is the button
Total number of players : 10
Seat 1: mbnyc ( $1025 )
Seat 2: tdrot56 ( $960 )
Seat 3: Neutraln ( $900 )
Seat 4: Edward2121 ( $615 )
Seat 5: thikASaBrick ( $1290 )
Seat 6: doofmonger ( $1945 )
Seat 7: duckmeet ( $970 )
Seat 9: tecumseh1812 ( $705 )
Seat 10: A_Junglen ( $1245 )
Seat 8: AmesisQueen ( $1320 )
Trny:15977492 Level:1
Blinds (10/15)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to A_Junglen [ Ad As ]
>You have options at Multi-Table(465204) Table #35 Table!.
A_Junglen calls [15].
mbnyc folds.
tdrot56 raises [150].
Neutraln folds.
Edward2121 folds.
thikASaBrick folds.
doofmonger calls [150].
duckmeet folds.
AmesisQueen folds.
tecumseh1812 folds.
A_Junglen is all-In [1230]
tdrot56 is all-In [810]
doofmonger folds.
** Dealing Flop ** [ Qd, 3c, 5h ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 6h ]
** Dealing River ** [ 9s ]
tdrot56 shows [ Kh, Kc ] a pair of kings.
A_Junglen shows [ Ad, As ] a pair of aces.
A_Junglen wins 285 chips from side pot #1 with a pair of aces.
A_Junglen wins 2095 chips from the main pot with a pair of aces.
Player tdrot56 finished in 908 place
tdrot56 has left the table.
Game #2758064113 starts.


Maybe not the greatest example, but this play netted me an extra T150 and certainly set a table image/presence.

[johnnybeef]

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opening limping on the button pwns

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[A_Junglen]

Oh, and of course the delayed/limp/steal from the button [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]

[whiskeytown]

ANYONE who says there is only ONE way to play ANYTHING is WRONG...

translation - I've got a chump that raises every hand he plays - nearly 50 % of the time - I get AA under the gun - why not limp and let one of the other players raise? - and I'll usually throw a couple limps in there here in there with small pocket pairs - if I get raised, I'm out cheap - and I'm setting things up for if I want a good C/R preflop later on when I have AA/KK -

I'm not saying it should be done all the time, but sometimes there is a nitish "absolutism" to poker that is just absurd - there are several ways to win and the trick is for you to figure out the optimum way to do so with each individual situation -

it is this slavish nitish devotion to hard and fast rules that made the System such big news about 3 yrs. ago -

"ooohhh...I can play tournament poker, win, and not have to make any decisions based on anything....I can just follow rules I have in this book to determine my actions..."

RB