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Originally Posted by mongidig
I have a dream opponent but I am concerned with my earlier position. If I'm on the button and have tight blinds I feel great raising these.
These hands are plenty strong you raise from your position as an open, so the players behind you shouldn't really be a concern.
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Originally Posted by mongidig
You have KTo on the button. Two tight/tricky and good playing post flop players limp . According to Small Stakes Hold 'em this should be a fold. The rational is that they could be limping with stronger hands and will punish you when you are dominated. They will bluff you off your hand. They will not chase with much weaker holding.
This makes a lot of sense to me, however, I can't imagine folding KTo on the button after limps. Maybe I have found a leak. I do get concerned that some advice is outdated much like HFAP is out dated.
What do you all think?
This seems like a pointless hypothetical because I can't imagine any tight, tricky, good players open limping. I guess if you airdropped me into an alternate universe where this happens, I would not fold KTo on the button. I'd probably limp along and take it one street at a time. There's no way that the villains can abuse you in the way the book suggests they will when you have position unless you are prone to make big mistakes.
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Originally Posted by mongidig
This is a hand from an old DC video.
Two tight players limp and we have J9s in the HJ. They say to fold. I wonder if this is more a factor of the tight limpers back then were really tight compared to these days. Again this is a hand I would be playing and often raising if the players behind me are tight. This video is probably over 12 years old.
You'd have to pry this from my cold, dead hands.