I play 1/3 at Crown Melbourne which has a $200 max BI.

The game is super soft and I'm not rolled for anything higher so it's short stacked silliness for now.

It's a very passive game with lots of limped pots etc. My general opening size is between 15-20 (depending on limpers) and will always get between 1-2 callers.

I have a pretty standard, tight opening range but will limp hands that play well multi-way. I usually will only open limp w/ small pps.

My question:

Is it profitable to have a limp-calling range in passive games with only 66BB?

Eg. 2-3 players limp in front. You're in LP and have:

1) T9s
2) 56s
3) A2-A5s
4) 22-77
5) Q9s
6) QJs/QJo

I'm very interested in knowing what people think. Another question:

Is it profitable to have a limp-calling range in passive games with 100BB?

It depends. How much do they have? How much is the raise? How many of the other limpers called? What kind of Vs are we playing against? Are we IP or OP to the raiser?

We sometimes will get set-mining odds at 66BBs effective, if the stars align correctly. The rest of those hands, prob not.

All of the questions above apply. generally we will get set-mining odds, and sometimes NF-mining odds, but rarely. Generally the low SCs are much better to come in for a raise yourself than to overlimp/call. The remainder is still trash.

I'd like to know the rake structure of your game before saying what you should do with each hand grouping. I don't remember if Australia rake is bad or completely brutal. In a vacuum, though, I'd limp categories 2-5 a bunch, and limp the QJ & T9s 70% of the time, raising the rest. This is given your statement that you frequently see flops HU/3-way when you raise, which is fairly likely facing 2-3 limpers.

I generally only do it IP and if I'm a bit deeper with at least one player.

Rake at Crown is 10% capped at $12. Pretty brutal.

The cards are much less important than the players. If you can't win a hand unless you hit a big one on the flop, you're better off folding especially with the rake. You're better off raising than calling otherwise.

With that rake structure and how shallow the games are generally, you can't profitably limp multi-way unless they're all going off 5-6 ways. Even then it's close. You're better off raising big pairs and broadways IP, flopping top pair and betting the hell out of it. Boring as hell, but that's the only way to beat the rake.