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Mr.Giggle

Oh you! This made me smile while modding.

I just limp or fold these.

Lol, I know people hate my limping strategy. But I don't open raise these hands ever nor do I open raise anything. You just have to hope to hit and stack somebody who overplays a hand they shouldn't be overplaying.

I don't really like middle suited gappers because they aren't good short stacked unless you are extremely short-stacked and they are only good deep-stacked if you hit a straight flush. If you hit just a flush you can only win a small pot from them or lose a big one. If you hit just a straight you might lose to a larger straight so they are difficult to play. Well, I'm a pessimist by nature but these hands are difficult to stack someone with unless they overplay a monster.

nobody is going to overplay a monster in a limped pot.

the only way to stack somebody who gets married to a big hand is to call in position after they open raise from EP.

if you are the first in the pot with a hand like this and somebody behind wakes up with a big hand, they are generally going to raise you, and calling out of position is spew, so i don't think opening these hands is good whether you are raising or limping.

As a general rule, you can raise them from late position and often from mid position. You can sometimes raise them from early position, partly to make your range unpredictable.

Limping these hands from early position is generally worse than raising them, but it is possible with strong ones like T9s. It is possible to limp them from mid to late position sometimes if you play that way, and can balance and follow up well. Open limping these a lot is generally a big leak though.

Generally you can defend the BB with them and maybe call from the button or CO. They are also decent hands to bluff 3-bet with, particularly if you expect to get flat called reasonably often time.