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Originally Posted by rojones
I play mostly 1/2 super fishy games. Almost no folding, but yet almost no raising. Its mostly limp call around the table. Most pots are at the minimum 3 handed unless there is a 15x raise or more. My question is, is it a bad play for me to limp early postion with suited connectors and small pairs knowing if I hit i will get paid. In my tourny play I NEVER limp early. Is this a profitable move for these type cash games? My thinking is, if I raise most people are going to call anyways so why not see a flop for cheap? Thanks for the advice!!
Last night I was in just this type of game. If they let you see flops for the price of a big blind, it's not a bad play to limp up front with suited connectors. You might get paid off if you hit gin. However, if there's a raise after you limp, you have to be able to get away from that type of hand, unless it's a very small min-raise. Usually when these passive, fishy players pop it, they have something that is way ahead of speculative hands like suited connectors.
However, I find that it's better still to limp behind with ATC on the button (or if a raise pre could buy the button -- that happened a lot too). That's what I did. Any bet ahead meant someone flopped something, and if I had nothing, I could drop out. If it got checked around, a bet would usually steal it right then and there. There were a couple of times when I had to pull the trigger a second time, but that was just twice during the whole session.
The only "legitimate" hand I played was a nut flush v. what I thought was a straight when a suited card of the straight-making rank fell. I felted that vil by making a "teaser" bet that he raised all-in, and I insta-called. Afterwards, he claimed to have made a smaller flush (no reason to believe he wasn't lying about raising in a situation where it was very likely I'd made a higher flush). Otherwise, it was steal, steal, steal, and it was that obvious: they bet they had something; they pass they had nothing and would not call.