Playing in the Blinds: Trap Hands

[AMadison]

I don't have a specific hand to post, but if I looked I'd find many of them. I'm not worried about one specific hand or a few specific hands however, I'm more concerned about thoughts on playing certain hands in the blinds when many players have limped. The hands I'm talking about are things like JJ, TT, AK, AQ, 99, KQ...

I'm curious what other people think about playing these hands OOP against 3-4 limpers who could have just about anything.

Also, please don't just respond "Raise" for the sake of posting. Let me know why you raise, how much, what you expect to accomplish, and what you do afterwards on various types of boards. Thanks.

[wildzer0]

I raise always with JJ, AK, AQ, TT, occasionally with 99 depending on the table and usually just check KQ. I usually do the 4xbb+1 for every limper rule, and then bump it up a couple. This usually gets it heads up vs. an idiot with a good amount of dead money in the pot.

[BishopsFinger]

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I raise always with JJ, AK, AQ, TT, occasionally with 99 depending on the table and usually just check KQ. I usually do the 4xbb+1 for every limper rule, and then bump it up a couple. This usually gets it heads up vs. an idiot with a good amount of dead money in the pot.

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[robinmbuk]

Yeah I see what you mean about these hands, can be hard to play OOP after loads of loose limpers. You have to raise fairly big if you wanna raise, but if the limpers are loose you often end up in a 3 way + pot OOP on the flop with the pot being 20 BB+ already... not nice.

I can check 99 and KQ here, maybe even TT but I raise the rest. This is because JJ can hit a favourable flop often (e.g. one or no overs). Raising AQ really punishes people who will call with a weaker ace, plus A high with Q kicker can sometimes be the best hand by the river (whereas king high rarely is, as with KQ). I hate KQ in this situation. I have tried both raising and checking with it here, but both options dont seem great [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img].

[ben wb]

I raise all of them apart from KQ which I normally check.

[InsideEdge]

Raise all those hands you mentioned, as a standard say 4xBB+1BB for every limper.

Your doing this for value with what is almost always the best hand. Secondly you may get players to fold better hands on the flop because of the pf raise.

If they all or several of them call then dont feel the need to fire a cont bet.

Essentially though your raising cos you have the best hand.