Limping in multiway pots?

Nightlight87 · #1 09-12-2007, 01:42 PM

I usually play a rather TAG style game. But at the microstakes I play at it's very common to see an early raise called by 3-6 people. When this occurs I'm wondering whether it would be wise to start limping with hands like 98o+, 76s+, Axs and other drawing hands because I have good pot odds to make the call, and with so many people in the pot I have excellent implied odds if I do hit the flop. And I can fold postflop without too much remorse if I don't hit the flop. Or at these limits am I better of just staying with the premium hands?

Is this thinking correct, I'd like some comments or opinions before I open up a potential leak in my game.

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OrangeKing · #2 09-12-2007, 01:44 PM

Is this in limit or no limit? That changes the answer significantly.

Nightlight87 · #3 09-12-2007, 01:48 PM

Woops sorry about that. Its $2Nl FR on pokerstars.

And another noob question [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] when describing the game say $2NL is it correct to put it at 100xBB, or at the maximum buying. I use the first method?

Terremoto · #4 09-12-2007, 03:29 PM

Of the hands mentioned, I'm only playing 76s and re-evaluate post flop. Ax is too easily dominated, and I find that offsuit connectors lower than a K are troublesome out of position. In position, I'm more inclined to play down to JTo and Axs.

unseen · #5 09-14-2007, 02:37 AM

I stick to the 2NL description too, because it avoids conflicts and misunderstandings. If you do not 10NL would mean two different levels on Stars at the same time.

On your original question:

The 2NL tables are pretty LP most of the time. I limp in with all kind of "crap" if this is the case. As you said already the pot odds are nice most of the time, but for me even more important is, that I can count on my implied odds most of the time, because people easily stack of with TPTK kind of hands.

I am a bit careful in raised pots, because they tend to become very big with people who cannot fold, so I need some more value in my hands to play these.

Interesting enough all this seems to change at the 5NL tables already, where I try to establish ATM. I would never have thought the people are playing a very different game to 2NL, but ATM it seems like it's true (based on a small sample of course).