| Player | Action | Cards | Amount | Pot | Balance |
|---|
| iklejack | Small blind | | £0.25 | £0.25 | £50.20 |
| badladgs22 | Big blind | | £0.50 | £0.75 | £19.50 |
| | Your hole cards | | | | |
| Eagle26 | Call | | £0.50 | £1.25 | £63.22 |
| MOREBOY | Fold | | | | |
| ChirpyChip | Call | | £0.50 | £1.75 | £63.83 |
| Macca1985 | Call | | £0.50 | £2.25 | £50.00 |
| iklejack | Call | | £0.25 | £2.50 | £49.95 |
| badladgs22 | Check | | | | |
| Flop |
|---|
| | | | | | |
| iklejack | Check | | | | |
| badladgs22 | Check | | | | |
| Eagle26 | Bet | | £2.50 | £5.00 | £60.72 |
| ChirpyChip | Call | | £2.50 | £7.50 | £61.33 |
| Macca1985 | Fold | | | | |
| iklejack | Call | | £2.50 | £10.00 | £47.45 |
| badladgs22 | Fold | | | | |
| Turn |
|---|
| | | | | | |
| iklejack | Check | | | | |
| Eagle26 | Check | | | | |
| ChirpyChip | Bet | | £7.50 | £17.50 | £53.83 |
| iklejack | Fold | | | | |
| Eagle26 | Call | | £7.50 | £25.00 | £53.22 |
| River |
|---|
right guys, this was a hand that occured not too long ago, and after the hand i was criticized for the limp utg with the 7-6 off by chirpychip (a well known, good respected player) and we debated it for quite a while and he asked me to go and ask some of the bigger hitters on here if my play was horrible-so i am! ... anyways reasons for my limp were this, the table had been very passive and since i joined i was the only person pretty much creating action, a hand like 7-6 (suited or not) is a hand i like to play because any good cash player will know these are the type of hands that can take down an opponents whole stack. and from late position i would always be raising with it-as i very rarely limp into a pot. however on this occasion i got dealt it utg and wanted to see a flop so rather than muckin it or rasin here i limped with the intention of callin a small raise - the table had been very passive so i knew that a raise and a re-raise was unlikely so was pretty confident i could get to the flop cheaply. i did and won the hand. so is this a terrible limp utg or not? i like to think as myself as a pretty reasonable player (not the greatest by any means) but a winnin player nontheless. i very rarely limp as many of the players who have shared tables with me will know, but on this occasion i wanted to get to the flop cheaply - am i wrong?? if so ill happily apologies to the bloke but imo i dont think there is much wrong here
Eagle26
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istory #248473970 (00:41 06/04/2010)
fair enough im wrong, my bad. cheers for replys. chirpy if i see ya dtd ill buy ya a pint lol
As long as you are prepared to
1. Fold to a substantive raise
2. Walk away from missing the flop (including gut-shots)
3. Understand that when you get trips, your kicker is poor
then I see no reason not to limp on low blind cash tables. In my experience, you tend to win more with 67 than AA (not more often, more cash) as nobody expects 67 in the pot.
As for Chirpy, he had the option to raise - he's losing with his trip 6s to a lot of hands that have limped or blinded in. If you don't raise and someone cathces a monster, I don't feel you have any right to complain.
It's a brilliant precis of everything that's wrong with serial-limping, a fault so many newbies share, & why a Raise is so much better.
Nice pot Eagle !!!!
If only I had the bottle to go an play up there......
I have the br(Well at least for nl100, maybe 200 dependin on how tight u are)....but to me, I dont care if I had 100k in my account, losing 200 quid is losing 200 quid!
People say if u are rolled for it, a £300 bad beat doesnt hurt, COME OFF IT!!!! ITS 60 £5 NOTES!!!
Maybe i'll stop feeling like that if/when I get used to it?
Back to the old limping debate, at nl50 its never that bad an option, you know technically its not great - but playing 100+ bb's deep - its never gonna be THAT bad surely. In the example you gave it's the position I dont like, not the limp - but then again if ur in late position Id prefer a raise as you have the position....so yeh...fold or raise. lol - but limping in with 67 is probably one of the smallest mistakes ur gonna make - dnt lose any kip over it