limping is perfect for advertising.
you just have to limp once to let everyone think you suck,
and it will take a few orbits till they realise that you are not that bad.
in tournaments i like to openlimp my first hand and a few more during the first level.
then i raise to 6x the bigblind preflop at least once, and am brandmarked as donkfish.
using a small percentage of your chips to set-up an image is the best thing you can do in tourneys.
(except when you get a quick table change of course...)

There's rare situations where you can justify open-limping. I.E. Big blind stupidly raise/folds a ton of trash when sb limps in so if hero's the sb he limp/3bets to exploit and takes down the pot 85% of the time.

However nearly all of the time open-limping is just inferior to open-raising for reasons stated ITT and all over the forum time and time again.

lols

No but really there are some spots that come up in NL where open limping is the optimal strategy. They come up bout 5% of the time tho.

open limping can be fine but it's a bitch to balance so hard to do while mega-tabling. I wouldn't be surprised if GTO play involves a lot of open limping. Doesn't change the fact that this thread and the logic (if you can even call it that) in the OP is pretty retarded.

u obv can open limp, open shove or open raise 12bb etc as a good (oe best) strategy in certain games or certain conditions, but overall it sucks and openning 3bb or 4bb will acomplish more if u do fine postflop

if only poker was that easy

I don't think it's a level. When's the last time you played small stakes, live?

Don't forget play money tables.

QFT

Open-limping makes me wanna puke. Its soooo more +EV to just ****ing raise it. Theres like 100 reasons to raise, and a lot of them have already been covered here.

Even if I wanted to, I couldn't bring myself to click call when it folds round pre

I thought the OP was serious until he got to 72o.

I honestly believe that most of the time open-folding is more proftiable that open-limping.

Open folding isn't profitable fwiw. But I agree that what you are trying to say is often true.

but is it MORE profitable than open limping?

open-limping will only work on weaker opponents. #endthread