Limp AA UTG @ $1/2 and $2/5
Join Date: Mar 2015
Posts: 355
I’ve been seeing AA limp in EP at both games, expecting a raise, getting that raise, getting a few callers then reraising as a squeeze.
Is this an effective strategy OOP?
I’ve seen it about 10 times in the past few months, and it seems to reel in at least 1 or two people who are set mining or suited connectors.
Thoughts?
Join Date: Dec 2013
Posts: 638
It depends how aggressive the game is. The more often people are raising preflop the more worth it it can be. No one balances though so your hand kinda become faceup
should be called sevenfour
Join Date: Dec 2005
Posts: 74,754
Limp-backraise can be effective if your opponents are clueless enough to not recognise that this usually screams out "I have aces", which despite this not being a new phenomenon, at low limits live they may well be
Join Date: Oct 2013
Posts: 10,700
Fine but check your table conditions carefully. Put it this way, at a table where this is a good play, you should be folding 22-55 from EP.
Also if you play with the same people for a long time, you will need to mix this play up because even bad regs will work this out if you do it a lot.
Join Date: Mar 2018
Posts: 4,669
This can also be an effective strategy with KK, AK and QQ. It helps to have a number of aggro raisers on your immediate left. Sometimes players will telegraph raises, making it even more attractive. Very often you can trap a field of callers and realize a substantial profit even if no one calls your reraise.
Join Date: Aug 2002
Posts: 17,920
it has good and bad. you lose the times when someone will reraise your first higher raise and you may get to bust them. few will get busted to a limp reraiser.
the good is you do get to play your aces against more players if they play bad. if it gets limped around you can play your hand like you hit top pair no kicker or betting a weak draw so may get called down often for smaller sized pots.
the times they raise you, you cant blast it back at them or they all fold and your aces lose too much of their value. so you are relegated to play a bigger pot oop with maybe a deeper stack and your hand being face up.
