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Originally Posted by kakospaidis
Well this might be long but I hope it will be helpful.
I think a good limping game is something that will make you a lot of money.
First of all your limping strategy should change against different opponents.
Like if you know that your opponent is a very aggresive 3-bettor you should limp some hands that are not value hands but you would otherwise raised with them hands like 45s,65s,87s,9Ts,86,57,22-77,K9,Q9,A-rags and stuff like that and always raise with value hands cause you know he will be 3-betting a ton and there is a big chance in getting some serious money in with the best hand.Now if he is very aggro against your limps and possibly raising with ATC you should be mixing in some traps like JJ-AA,ATs+ and stuff like that.
You should start developing reads early on in the match about his limping range.If he limps much of his range and never folds to your limp raises you should take flops with raggish hands like K7,K6,Q4s,J5s etc just because raising with them you may be putting yourself in very marginal situations and raising them doesn't ake any sense.Also hands like 73,84,23,24,46,74 etc can some times flop real monsters and they are very deceaving too!
Now if you start to realise that he is very passive against your limps you should be playing 100% VPIP OTB and never fold hands that against any other oponent you would open fold them!
Now if he is aggro against your limps and start limp rasing a ton play a std strategy of raising or folding and mix in some traps again vs him.
If he iss really loose passive player and is not really aggro you should start limping a wide range and most of the time not limp raising him when you are OOP.You should pound loose passive guys OOP and valuetown them when we are in position.They will call you soooo light that limping garbage can seem profitable against them.
Hope I helped!
I agree for the most part, but I wouldn't limp small pocket pairs. You'll often flop two or tree overs and miss your set. Also, what if villain raises your limp? Calling puts you in many marginal spots on the flop. I often open shove them.
As for A rag, I prefer raising too. By limping hands like A3, villain often checks behind with two middle cards, which have 45% equity to realise vs your hand. I'd rather fold that equity out, either pf or with a cbet