This is something that used to happen back in the olden days of poker. UTG would limp with Aces and that would be the general line they would take. This became outdated and unused as it was too obvious and unbalanced. Everyone used to joke 'oh u limped utg, you must have AA' and they did have that 99% of the time.
One frequent and often successful use of the limp-reraise comes when there have been several preflop limpers, then a player in late position or the blinds decides to make a big raise or all-in shove to claim all of the 'dead money' in the middle. When I talk about poker preflop raising hands, I will primarily be talking about the hands you should raise when everyone else folds before you. IE you are the first person to put money into the pot. The reraise is a versatile play that can be used profitably in many different poker situations. Of all the reasons to reraise, the most obvious is to build the pot. Frequently, when you get the opportunity to reraise, it is because one of your opponents had a strong enough hand to raise. If you have to put in some amount of chips to continue with the hand, and you want to increase the pot, it's called a raise. If it is confusing, just remember this old poker adage: 'You can't raise yourself.' In No-Limit Hold'em, the minimum bet is usually the big blind.
Limp re-raising should be done nowadays only for value. Its so hard to do it preflop and get the bet through, players will call and play postflop in position. So if we are doing it with rags we are going to find ourselves in a tough spot. One side rule of this is if you have specific notes on someone. An example of this would be a very aggressive big blind. A mass tabler who will always raise the BB if the SB limps and then instantly folds when 3b by the sb. This you can then do all day with rags until the BB adjusts.
If we are going to limp re-raise bluff and we have the perfect spot to do so i'd recommend having somewhat of a playable hand post flop incase we are called pre. Playable hands consisnt of suited connectors, suited gappers and anything that can generally make somewhat of a hood hands post flop. Such as 79, K10, 46, 910.
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The best time to limp re-raise is when there is a mad aggressive opponent behind you. The type of player who always re-raises and cant see a limped pot. Here we can limp our value range and get value for it pre flop and post flop. It allows us to build a larger pot pre flop and not allow our opponents to see cheap flops when they just flat us pre. Its also great as we get to see what every other player does behind us. We can see who flats, who 3bets and then adjust our play according to this. Obviously if we have QQ, KK, AA or AK we are fist pump jamming it in no matter what action happens behind us. But boarder line hands such as JJ, 1010, AQ, AQ can be made simple for us to play.
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An example of this would be: $50nl table hero utg limps $0.50 aggro fish raises $2.50 cut off peals $2.50 button peals $2.50 small blind folds BB makes it $9. we can now figure out whats the best line to take. We have the info that the flatters probably are not strong, we have the info that the mad aggro player never has anything and we now know everything about the BB from play history, huds and table image. Sometimes it might be vs the biggest nit ever so we can sigh fold our 1010 or AQ. Other times it could be vs another laggy fish. So we can decide if we want to flat, raise, jam and our sizing.
