This awesome. Been experimenting with this too. Been making it 35 up front. 30 in mp. 25 in lp when opening. More of course with limpers. It seems usually at my tables 40 is the cutoff - too many folds in EP with 40 opens. Thanks for the responses.

Why is his preflop call bad?

Because hero accidently flipped his hand faceup

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Lolololol. Yes.

No not really. But I only do this with AA. So it's a bad call.

99.99% of llsnl only do this with AA only, don't be too harsh on yourself

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I'm not convinced it's a bad way to play (limp RR only AA in this circumstance). Willing to be convinced. Some don't like the limp RR AA UTG at all. But if you think the problem is having an AA only range, then what should be the range for limp RR UTG? I am thinking of adding KK. Add QQ too?

If you're at an aggressive table where nearly every pot is raised pre, limp/re-raising kk/qq might be ok. But eventually people will catch on and limp behind, and they'll get a cheap price to take A3 or K9 to a flop and spike an overcard.

I l/rr a certain percentage utg or utg+1, but after AA, I add AK and AQs to the mix. The only caution is that other people l/rr AK too, so some regs know that's a big part of you range.

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So he shouldn't be calling anything but AA right?

Why did you pop it up then? To fold out his KK-?

Plus, "passive players on your left" --> you should open raise AA instead of limping and hoping some of those passive players would raise your limp, which shouldn't happen very often

More than that, it's not like your limp reraise actually worked. You just ran aces into kings so you got paid off. It's not like you tricked anybody. Hell, you even say he's not a good player because he has kings. Which LOL if you think a good player can't pay you off with kings then your line with aces ****ing sucks balls.

Raising, getting 3bet and 4betting is a line a million times weaker than the lrr. You get called by JJ and AK all the time there.

Now, that doesn't mean you can never LRR AA, but you need some sort of reason to do it. These reasons could include:

1) A tell that a guy is about to raise
2) Idiots galore
3) Super idiots galore

A good solid player who punish limpers is not a good reason. They just fold, unless they have KK, which they'd 3bet/call anyways. Furthermore, targeting these players is really dumb. Target the bad passive players, not the guys who raise/fold ffs.

This basically. I'll say this, your sizing is really bad and turns your hand face up as KK+ with possibly some QQ. I would fold KK pre there. If villain was a lot better, he would've folded pre to your tiny min reraise. I'm fairly certain he put you on exactly AA but just couldn't fold the second nuts pre.

As played, either limp shove or flat the 3bet pre. Limp raising is fine only if villains will call you with worse than QQ+ OFTEN.

None of these are necessarily leaks. Especially 200+bb deep against most players, it's correct to only get it in with AA pre. For this hand, it's your sizing that I hate the most. You may as well tell villain you have AA.

In general i am a fan of limp reraising KK/AA on some occasions. The times i have executed this move have gotten me the most action with these hands in the games i attend.

Its often a very stationy table, people just luuuuve to see flops and have an incredibly hard time folding preflop if they have put any money in the pot. So even if i play my hand face up as KK/AA (to good players), it have been huge value for me.

Especially from early position like UTG or UTG+1 i love to limp KK or AA. Depending on the amount of action in front of me (wich players raised/reraised) i can decide if the pot is big enough preflop and maybe i then want to flat to really trap somebody or i can reraise pre to juice up the pot even more.

Actually he probably convinced someone with queens to fold and lost an entire buy-in with his strategy.

Dont limp 3 bet AA.

If you play at a table with tableconditions when this works incredibly good why not?

I woudnt have done it if it didnt work out for me, but it does. For meg at my usual table and "refusing to fold" conditions i would say i limp reraise 20-30 percent of the time with KK or AA.