Limp/calling with aces

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I know the books and the consensus on this forum indicate that when you limp with aces, you should reraise when raised.

I have had some success with limp calling and I have seen other people use this play. It creates great deception and works at any buyin level. The raiser is sure you have a marginal or speculative hand and is almost certain to make a continuation bet.

To make this play, you need aces, not kings or whatever. You need to have only one opponent. Also, the money need to be reasonably deep. It can be real deep or just deep enough so that villain will have trouble calling a limpraise. You prefer that villain raised from late position, so he probably doesn't have a big hand. If you think villain has JJ-KK or AK, go ahead and limpraise. You also prefer that the opponent is in the blinds so you have position. Normally you would try this against an opponent in the blinds if you limped from mid to late position, so the player in the blinds doesn't need a big hand to raise. The flat call should thoroughly convince him you have a marginal hand. You want an aggressive opponent. You want to do this when you think your opponent will read the limpraise correctly.

I see people play aces in ways that make it fairly obvious that they have aces. This approach makes it almost impossible that your opponent will consider you might have aces.