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Can someone explain to me during an mtt when is acceptable to open limp and limping behind, I rarely limp and when I do I feel I'm not using it correctly.
 
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good limping hands are Ace Rag or small pocket pairs like 22 33 44 or 55
 
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I hate limping, I will even used "Limper" as an insult when they are not slow playing that is a valid poker strategy. For me Limping is a bad approach, better just bet the minimum bet. :jd4: :jd4:
 
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Every strategy is legit. I like to limp when blinds are low and many players are in the hand.
 
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Limping just give more opportunities to your opponents to hit best hand on flop
 
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good limping hands are Ace Rag or small pocket pairs like 22 33 44 or 55

22 33 44 55 it's hands only for steal from BU or SB if another players was Folded. Sieze 2 or 3 bb.

Can someone explain to me during an mtt when is acceptable to open limp and limping behind, I rarely limp and when I do I feel I'm not using it correctly.

Never use limp man ;) Always min raise. Noone will be know what a hand you have. I saw many limps with AA who lost vs 42o, 72 from BB . . .

It was a call of limper in a picture :)
 

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limp only with a small pocket pairs with 2 or more people in the pot. Going in minimum and hitting a set will be profitable as it is hidden and opponents will call raises with high pair kicker and 2 pairs. As soon as you hit a triple, raise big or if you don't hit try to check or fold if bet is too high.
Instead of small pocket pairs you can try playing hands like A5s 45s 89s if you have a tight image and only raise big if you make straight or bigger or maybe even 2 pair.
 
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people who play tight and wait for premium hands often rail on limpers who suck out on them. truth is you need to learn to play looser and be the one sucking out! If you are playing small pairs all you need to do is see the flop to look for trips, after that your chance of improving a small pair on turn is not good. HOWEVER! if you are playing 7-6 suited, you want to see the turn and river as much as possible, better to keep the pot small and limp, if you have to call bet on flop it will be a smaller bet if pot is smaller.

someone earlier also mentioned limping early on while the blinds are small which is very true, also EARLY ON is when all the dumb bunnies are still around and you can hit a big hand and double up. Later, good players will make you pay to draw or be so low in chips they shove PF.
 
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I agree with theevildub here. Try to limp only with low pocket pairs. Do not limp with premium hands because the story could end with a similar result what SuzdalDEcor described some lines above.
 
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Only when you are set mining cause you want to see the flop as cheaply possible.
 
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Don't open limp.

If you're going to open limp/fold to a raise, just fold it preflop.
If you're going open limp/call a raise, just open raise it preflop.

Overlimping is fine in late position.
 
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It was a call of limper in a picture :)

It was a cash game not like in question of this topic (MTT)! And in cash u always use other strategy then in mtt. and in pict it wasnt limp, button call Hero's raise! :D - allin after-flop from button!
 
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I limp a lot in early parts of the tournaments with speculative hands. A lot of time people allow it and if they raise i just fold. When i catch a monster i usualy make an overbet.
 
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Don't open limp.

If you're going to open limp/fold to a raise, just fold it preflop.
If you're going open limp/call a raise, just open raise it preflop.

Overlimping is fine in late position.

Seems like a pretty legit strategy, was just wondering when blinds increase and your big stack looses value if there was more value in open limping when we are playing 25bb-. I often find my big stack loosing value to blinds increasing and open raising to folding post flop when missed decreasing my stack quickly.
 
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I hate limpers :D. Much better is to make minimum raise pre flop.
 
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I think you can limp all kind of hand, of course, the better think is just open raise, but if you'll limp, you should be balance, don't be the guy that ONLY limp speculative hands, or the guys ONLY limp traps ..
If you'll will use this strategy ( and IMO it's a good strategy sometimes ) you just have to be balanced .
GL dude !!
 
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It was a cash game not like in question of this topic (MTT)! And in cash u always use other strategy then in mtt. and in pict it wasnt limp, button call Hero's raise! :D - allin after-flop from button!

I knew you will notice it :D

Yes I remember it, just this message is a vivid example of my words and I knew where to find this picture quickly :Д
 
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I hate limping, I will even used "Limper" as an insult when they are not slow playing that is a valid poker strategy. For me Limping is a bad approach, better just bet the minimum bet. :jd4: :jd4:

u're too eight or eighty, there are some times that it's good to go limp, position with middle/low pair is one good limp.
 
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22 33 44 55 it's hands only for steal from BU or SB if another players was Folded. Sieze 2 or 3 bb.



Never use limp man ;) Always min raise. Noone will be know what a hand you have. I saw many limps with AA who lost vs 42o, 72 from BB . . .

It was a call of limper in a picture :)

but with AA no man, but with your hand, to straight or set value is good use limp.
 
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Most everything depends on the table you are at really. Some tables it is acceptable to limp with most hands because the table as a whole limps a lot. Other tables with more aggressive players limping with big hands might be right as you know they are going to raise, giving you the option to 3 bet. Really there are so many situations to state.
 
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Yea I only limp in pots with 2 or more players to get in cheap, same with he small pocket pairs
 
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I hate limping, I will even used "Limper" as an insult when they are not slow playing that is a valid poker strategy. For me Limping is a bad approach, better just bet the minimum bet. :jd4: :jd4:

JJ.. my favorite limp card... after i saw that it is responsible for over half of my losses, i decided to treat it like a 78o in late positions :)
 
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usually happens early in tourney when blinds are low and you can win at least 30x the blind if you hit your set
 
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With small pocket pairs quite well and profitably play a limp.
 
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I limp quite often in the beginning of the tournament
Because you can see the flop cheap and have a chance to double up early.(if you hit big on the flop).
 
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