[Jeff76]

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If you're limping KK UTG,UTG+1 with gameplan for aggressive pre-flop and post-flop play, then, yes, this increases variance. But if you are only looking to get aggressive pre-flop (re-raise a raiser) and have a gameplan to quietly laydown the kings if multiple callers and A on flop or coordinated flop and resistance to you betting at pot, then, no, not much variance is added.

[/ QUOTE ]When I talk about increasing variance, I mean that we will tend to win fewer pots with a line, but on average those pots will be bigger. It is absolutely the case that limping KK UTG will cause us to win fewer pots no matter what our post flop game plan is, and presumably we will win bigger pots on average when we do win to offset the pots we lose. Winning bigger pots less often is the type of strategy I try to avoid in STTs.

I suppose the question is how much variance is added, and perhaps I overestimate that amount. These are the types of discussions (though maybe not with this particular play specifically) I would expect a good STT book to address. Not being an STT expert, it may even be that my "variance reducing" thought processes are way off base. This is the reason I'd like to read a good STT book and am hopeful that this one delivers. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]