In some live games this week that got short-handed, my usual strategy of raising everything I play in EP didn't seem to be working. So, I started limping a lot and liked it a lot better.

Today I decided I'd try the same thing online, and I also liked it. So, I wondered what you guys think.

The PF strategy is basically this: Limp (almost) anything you play in EP, but raise when you open in LP. One can be a bit flexible on big hands--whether to limp-re-raise or open raise in EP. The way the online table was playing, I liked the LRR better, in the live game probably just open raising. But that's certainly something one can experiment around with.

Here's my impression from minimal experience:

First, you don't get into the issue of telegraphing small PP if you limp call because your range is much wider--SCs, KQ, AJ, etc. So, this really keeps your holdings on the flop well-disguised.

Second, it seemed to me that a lot of chronic raisers were very hesitant to raise an EP limp from a fairly tight player such as myself. So, it created a typically smaller investment in the pot from EP as opposed to the LP raise. That also seems to me like a good thing.

I guess those are the main advantages I was noticing.

Opinions?

I don't see the problem with limp-calling AJ or KQ really. The situation is exactly the same, it seems to me, as raising and getting an LP caller, except that I would expect the LP raiser to have a looser (or identical) range than the player who calls your EP raise.

I guess I don't object strongly to LRRing these top 6% hands, although I never do it myself. Limp-folding seems to me terribly wt unless your LP raiser is raising 6% or less.

This is exactly how I played when buying in for 50-60BB's.
When I'm 100BB+ I just open more or less anything I'm going to play.

On very aggro tables you can counterpunch more, on passive ones you can open raise more..