However, there are still many good reasons to raise. (1) To get money in and when know you have the best hand (2) It will help to define your opponents' hands. If you let the blinds in cheap or let people limp in LP, you'll have a lot of trouble knowing where you are in the hand. (3) Although limiting the field might not be mathematically profitable, it will increase your chances of winning the hand...thus reducing your swings, and preventing tilt / mouse-destruction.
I was on a limp-reraise kick a while back and learned some interesting (though hardly ground breaking) things. I found that both AA and KK are more a bit profitable when you can pull off a limp-reraise, but a LOT less profitable when the limp-reraise fails. Therefore, you should only attempt a limp-reraise when (1) it has a decent likelihood of success, i.e. you're at an aggressive table, and (2) there's a significant chance your EP raise would only steal the blinds. If there's any calling station at the table who I know will call my raise, than I'm not even going to consider limping. Same holds true if most pots are of the unraised, multiway variety.
These days, I rarely limp my aces...and about half the time I do, I wind up wishing I hadn't.
-TWStatistics: Posted by TightWad — Fri Jul 15, 2005 7:50 am
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