Limp-raising with AA

If you have AA in early position on an aggressive table and you're 90% sure that someone behind you is going to raise preflop and multiple people are going to call that raise, then do you think that limp-raising is a good strategy?

For example:
- Hero gets AA in UTG position
- Hero limps in
- Hero expects MP or CO to raise preflop
- Hero plans to re-raise that

Is this a viable strategy?

It could be, but there's no guarantee CO or MP is going to to raise. So, you could easily be looking at a multi-way pot with AA. I think raising preflop is the overall better approach just to get value on your hand.

I think it would depend more on your image at the table. If you're super nitty, a raise might scare off everyone. But if you're loose and play a wide margin of hands, then a raise might work better for you. Especially if you have aggressive players behind you looking to 3bet in position.

So, yeah...it could work.

I do it all the time, u just have to be sure. Theres a player raising a lot of hands. Its kinda risky but when you have many agressive players u can get a lot of chips.

With AA you should bet. But the thing is how much should you bet. Many players will fold you if you did this oop. Bet agressively but remember bettin too high can make'em fold.

If you have a bunch of players in the middle who are habitual limpers but usually fold to any raise, combined with a 100% sure-fire raiser in late position or the blinds, I could see how you might build a bigger pot with just limping and hoping to then still get a raise in preflop. That is a lot of preconditions for a play, though. I sure would hate to have everybody just limp in, and then comes a flop that gives good drawing hands, now making my AA less valuable! I'd have to be very, very sure the check raise strategy would actually work. I would kick myself if it backfired.

I think that you have to raise either its aggressive table or not.

I guess It can work, but I still prefer to raise pre flop.

This is a terrible strategy.On limp you can run too many players with weak hands and you will not come against several players. And if you say that the players at the table agressive, so a high probability that they will do 3-bet and you will be able to collect even more value.

PacMan said:

This is a terrible strategy.On limp you can run too many players with weak hands and you will not come against several players. And if you say that the players at the table agressive, so a high probability that they will do 3-bet and you will be able to collect even more value.

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I'm talking more about live poker. Players rarely 3bet, but they will often raise about 5x and get multiple callers. The only way to guarantee a 3bet is to limp-raise.

Yes, there's the possibility that everyone else will limp in and my AA will be ruined by a wet board, but isn't poker just a game of probability? If it's more likely that a strategy will work, then it's a good strategy, isn't it?

Actually its a bookline play and very promising at live games. You can extract much with that strategy.

Online, its a different story.

Yeah it could works, but sometimes they suspect you to have a monster cause you're not doing this with any type of hand only (AA or KK) and they'll fold. but if you open-raise x4-5 bb nobody will get a read on you.

is not the best ideea...he can limp too or small raise preflop..with crapy cards like J2o..on the Flop JJ4..or J2K..

Just recently I started limping with AA in early to middle position hoping that someone raises behind me. Since I play on Bovada (Zone) I have seen more players recently 3 and 4 betting large with hands like JJ, ATo, AJo, and TT. So I've been limping more often with AA, and even KK, since I'm less inclined to run into AA or KK against an opponent who is 3 or 4 betting large.

It works perfectly at micro limits where a lot of ppl will raise then many of them will call and so on. But it's a terrible strategy for higher limits.

I wouldn't limp, I don't want a whole bunch of people lining up to crack my aces... Aggressive raise is my normal play, and if the table is very aggressive I may just shove all in if there is history of that happening at the table

If you are confidence 90% behind you gonna raise,then obviously its a good idea,but if not you should raise 4bb in attempt of isolating the small or even middle pair cause you might not want them catching a set.