What are your first thoughts when deciding to limp call when you have a high pair?

[dangbaonguyen93]

When you holding AA, KK, QQ. And you deciding to limp call. What were your plans at that time?

 

[dannystanks]

You should think of why limping the strongest starting hands would be more profitable than making a raise.

 

[Arthurinacio17a]

let someone go up

 

[eberetta1]

That would be insanity. I would raise to get rid of the junk cards from going in. Only reason I would be thinking of not raisin here is because I wanted to win more chips, and I am a small blind and worried the BB would fold or hope I hit trips on the flop. I would also be thinking my hand is gonna lose to a straight or flush by not raising, and I would deserve to lose.

 

[luk0123]

I don't think it's a good idea to limb call. With that kind of hand you should always raise pre floop. Unless there are many players going all in. Then I would fold as many Times I lost with rwally weak hands.

 

[pentazepam]

That I have lost my mind.

 

[sibkaz]

That you're likely to have to discount them... Also, the damn mouse broke again, I didn't have time to reraise)))))

 

[Mr.$t0k]

encourage people to raise or push and then try to win the hand

 

[Zipptydoodah]

I play in a regular home game ($30 Buy in) where at least 6 players will see the flop no matter what the initial raise is at the start of a game. In this case making a huge preflop raise and then going against several players in my opinion is not a good plan. In this case I limp with AA and if I do flop an A I most definately will get action and a double or triple up. Later in the game fewer players will play so then it is ok to raise preflop with AA to narrow the field down to one or two.

 

[edenman1]

Lately I have been thinking whos going to beat my AA with their 10 2 and catch a flush lol

 

[SpanRmonka]

I am never looking to limp call with these hands. I may occasionally limp with AA or KK but never with QQ. After my limp I'm looking to call a shove, or re raise any raise that has occurred.

The main times I may do this are when expecting a crazy player to shove, or maybe someone has just lost a lot of chips and they are likely to shove, plus I am UTG/UTG+1. Or maybe its late stages and lots of players are short and there is a lot of shoving going on....a good time is just after bubble bursts, as players tend to have been holding on to get into the money.

However, all that said, these are very very rare occasions with specific table dynamics.

 

[TeUnit]

My first thought is not to limp call, it is how many effective blinds do the remaining players have and how can I maximize my EV.

 

[9peso]

I only limp call when my opponent plays aggressive and I'm convinced that he has something, then mostly he goes all-in and I check it.
At this point my first thought is to calculate how many stack will I have $$$