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Originally Posted by LordRiverRat
Max is $500. Not too many reads on BTN. Seems to play like one of those TAG Asian kids. I see that you're a huge advocate of position and open limping in EP. I'm an Ed Miller fan and am an advocate of limping as little as possible other than in the SB, and never open limping. But you've proven yourself to be a winning player over a significant sample so it works for you. IMO if any half-decent player notices us limping hands like TT, when we do raise from EP our hand might as well be face up. They can flat IP and make our life HELL on any T high flop or lower that's somewhat coordinated.
When villain checks back flop, makes me think he has some weak SDV or air he doesn't want to bluff. When he raises turn, he's polarizing himself. I think I might have to call down on non-heart rivers.
So long as you're comfortable with the spot you're in, go for it. This result (flopping a very mediocre hand and being put to the test OOP on later streets by a difficult player) should have been seen a mile away. If you have a plan how to deal with it, you'll most likely be fine. If you don't have a plan, or are extremely uncomfortable with it / doubt it's profitability, you might want to consider something different preflop. Ed Miller can tell you all you want about not limping, but if he's not there to hold your hand thru the rest of the hand then you'd better be comfortable handling it yourself.
As for being face up when we raise in EP: we have to have raising range in EP?
As I say, deep is not my forte at all; but the deeper we get, and the more important position becomes, the more we can move towards 0% raising range in EP, imo. Others will likely disagree, and that's fine... so long as you are very comfortable with your postflop plan. Course, a lot of this also has to do with your overall style, especially when shortstacked; I mean, I think at most shortstacked tables you should actually play extremely nit tight, but one of the drawbacks to this is your opens will unfortunately be face up (which is fine short, but not so much when you end up against the deepstack)... but you don't *have* to open.
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