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Originally Posted by BrianBoyko
Honest question. I've played a bit of live 1/2 lately, and I've yet to see limp-reraise *not* be AA specifically.
Alright, i see. Didnt mean to be grumpy against you just to clarify that.
Like yeah, i totally agree. In my experience its KK or AA like an insane percent of the time. Often it comes from older nits or rocks, who are tired of not getting any action on these hands.
So they make a (******ed) adjustment of limping them, in a desperat attempt to get action and that somebody else can raise it up before they can repop. The adjustment is kind of ******ed of course, because what they really should do is to dig into the reason behind why everybody turbofolds when a guy that havent played a hand for 3 hours suddenly raises to $15 UTG in a 1-2 game. They try to solve the symptoms with the limp/reraise, instead of going at the main problem.
But that its too complicated for them or out of their comfort zone (cause the adjustment is obvious, you need to raise more hands than QQ+ and AK), but its more convinient for them just to continue to nit it up, and do some limp/reraising instead with their ultra premiums. They just dont want to widen the amount of hands their playing. What they want is simply to sit there with their coffee or couple of beers on a wednesday out free from the wife, waiting for the nutz and get paid.
So its all about understanding the psychology and level of thinking behind how these guys approach the game, then the big picture make sense after all.