A strategy for that free look at the flop?

Good evening people!

Well you've read the title. I'm talking about the 3% or so of times where you find youself seeing the the flop with not voluntary investment.

I have never given this situation a hell of a lot of thought and just wanted your opinions and ideas of how it should, and probably more importantly SHOULDN'T be approached

I guess there are not to many variables to consider, aside from the cards we hold and the numbers of players that have limped in (I don't try to put limpers on a range.. wouldn't know how to anyway!) Of course we may or may not have the SB along for the ride but lets just assume all limpers are the average 21/8 you see at 5NL and our hand wasn't good enough to put in a raise pre-flop.

So if we have 1 caller and he is the SB we would have raised him pre-flop with ATC. Thats a no-brainer.

How about if the only caller has position on us?

How about if we see the flop with 2 others?

How about if we see the flop with 3 others?

Do you guys play straight forward and bet if you have top or middle pair?

Would you try and bluff on a scary board or use the advatage of being OOP with "right of first bluff"?

Thoughts, Ideas?

Frank.

"It depends?" Lol.

Mostly on how many villains are in the hand and how they play. Usually if it's a limped pot there's a fish or two in the pot, these kind of players oftentimes don't know where their fold buttons are, so I'm just treating these situations as folds and not even really acting like I'm involved in the hand (check-fold) unless I flop two-pair or better. If I flop two-pair or better, I'm going to value town.

If it's HU vs. a weak-passive limp-fish, even if the SB comes along, you can bet at raggy dry boards that connect well with our BB-check range. Very villain-dependent though. I stress again, I'm not playing vs. calling stations with less than two-pair.

Edit: If a weak-passive player limps and it folds round to me on the BB (doesn't matter if SB comes along), then my checking range is going to be really narrowly awful. I'd raise any suited hand, and any 3-gappers above T6 even. The kind of hand I might not raise will be broadway-rag offsuit hands. This is because the high-VPIP weak-passives will be playing lots of broadway-rag hands and we could easily be dominated with a hand like A2o-A7o.