Naah man you either muck it or raise it preflop!! It is very good if you recognize the fish in the BB and are looking to play pots with him, and are willing to open up your range for that! But limping does very often not result in a pot where it is you vs the fish.
Originally posted by EmiyaKiritsugu
Point is that you want to isolate(=play heads up) fish, not share him with other players.
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Originally posted by SDK1987 u
What would be the plan if you face a decent raise pre-flop from a villain that has position on you?
Casey55, If I would have position on you, (and actually also out of position) I would raise you anyday with hands like T9s, JTs, QT, QJ, K9s, KT, AT, and a lot more. A lot of better hands that when they contain a Ten, they have you crushed if you flop a pair.
In that sense, free cards like 7♦:6♦: would be a less worse limp (and even then you are dominated by A6s/A7s), but still a bad one.
It is only when you raise, that you can represent a very strong hand after the flop. If you do not raise before the flop, people will less often believe you if there comes a high flop and you bet the flop. Or where you not planning on betting a lot of flops?
Now your hand would be perfectly disguised if you would have raised preflop. If you raise preflop, people will less often believe you have medium or low cards, because they think you will have high cards very often (and they are right in that) So, if you do hit a flop very good with T8s, and you raised preflop, you have a better chance of winning a big pot because people will less often put you on this hand. Whereas if the flop comes high, and you raised preflop, more people will believe you can have something.
So by raising T8s preflop instead of limping it:
- People will less often believe you when you make a strong hand on a medium high flop
- People will more often believe you when the flop comes high and you bet
The result of this is that you have more ways to win the pot postflop, or maybe even preflop.
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Let me add:
In multiway pots, when you have a strong hand, people will much less often pay you off with a worse hand. Because the chance that they are beat vs multiple opponents is much higher than vs 1 opponent.
So heads-up you can much more often win bigger pots then when it is multiway, even though more people put money in the pot preflop.
Let me add:
You can win a pot at any point with betting or raising, but by calling you can only win a pot at showdown.
