Right now I'm playing in the micros (.5/.10NL) 6 max. What do you do when everyone calls the raise. Okay I shouldn't say everyone but 2 or 3 others at the table? For example, I'm on the Button, everyone limps in so I raise it to 70 or 80 cents. 9 times out of 10 , three people will call my raise and 2 will donk into me. Plus if I miss the flop should I just give it up?
I seem to be losing money trying to isolate. I don't think thats work to well in the lower stakes....need a little advice.
You have to change your range when there’s a limper behind. For example, let’s suppose you were going to open T9o, J7s, 76s, K3s from BTN when it comes in fold. When it comes in limp we must fold part of our range and be a little more tight (as
@iwont20 Run, Lola Run said perfectly)
If you are raising limpers 9 out of 10 times you are trying to exploit limpers and getting exploited by them.
Some players are just limping awaiting to call any raise with any sizing, if they own a baby pocket pair for example, or any two suited cards, they won’t mind if you raise 5x or 10x, they will simply call.
When we completely miss the flop is best to leave the hand and wait for another spot.
One thing I know for sure about too much passive players: they love to limp and call and when they bet or raise they have the goods. It’s obvious the way they play and we must believe it.
But we must be clever! For example, we raised one limper to 4x and we have some piece of
equity and the limper OOP elects to bet just 1 BB! Most of times they own nothing, they have no idea why they are betting, so in cases like this we are raising, having some equity, if we completely miss the flop, we must have at least two overcards to think about some move.
In the past I was a huge fan of Nathan ‘blackrain79’ Williams: his strategy is to polarize our value range versus limpers, i.e, passive limps OOP and we raise 9x, 12x because it’s going to call anyway and we want to build the pot as soon as possible:
Okay, this is a good line of thought, however we must consider we are going to miss and lose some of the
hands we raise versus limpers. As bigger we raise preflop, more committed to the pot we get and more inclined to go all-in with any TPTK.
Now if I’m raising 3x IP when it comes in fold, if someone limps I raise 3x + 1 BB for every limper, I don’t see any reason to go larger than that.
There are thousands of other factors that is impossible to discuss here, but I hope this can help you!
Best regards;
