$11 20K: Limp re-raised from MP

[O.T.G.]

This was in the $11 20K on Stars. Villain was 25/9 after 65 hands and was not playing great.

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t400 (9 handed) Hand History converter Courtesy of PokerZion.com

CO (t6980)
Hero (t7175)
SB (t16422)
BB (t4590)
UTG (t11424)
UTG+1 (t15788)
MP1 (t12139)
MP2 (t14066)
MP3 (t11643)

Preflop: Hero is Button with T[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], A[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img].
<font color="#666666">2 folds</font>, MP1 calls t400, <font color="#666666">3 folds</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to t1475</font>, <font color="#666666">2 folds</font>, <font color="#CC3333">MP1 raises to t12139</font>, Hero ???????.

Final Pot: t13789

[freeucm]

I fold this preflop

[O.T.G.]

Even with antes and the best position?

[SuperUberBob]

Gotta it lay it down after the LRR. Prob dominated.

[BarryLyndon]

Raising is fine here, OTG.

Fold afterwards. Nothing you can do. This sucks and yeah it could be some BS KQ or something ridiculous. But not enough for me to just fold it without a VERY strong read. AJo does this so much it's not even funny (actually, it's still a little funny).

Barry

[Doofus]

I limp here preflop 'cos I don't want that happening. Too weak?

[Asterix77]

I think that the raise here is fine although I'd make it more than the 3,5bb you did. When the bb shoves on us I think we have to fold though (good thing that you did only make it 3,5bb!).

I think that there is some value to limping here but my standard play would be to raise depending on a read on the limper. Limping with the intention of folding to a raise from the blinds does seem weak, wouldn't we be better just open folding???

[Doofus]

Folding is too weak but I just feel raising is a little frisky given stack sizes.

[helter skelter]

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was not playing great.

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How do you know that?

[O.T.G.]

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was not playing great.

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How do you know that?

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Because I was paying attention to the hands he played at the table.