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when should i start punishing limpers?

edited February 2015 in Tournament Strategy
I had just moved tables and after about 7 hands, it was clear my table was packed with limpers.
my chip stack at the time was 5000, the blinds were 40/80, I was attempting to build my stack and instead it was draining, had these limpers had 0-1K then i could have been better but they didn't.

things like super rollers and rebuys, it doesn't really seem to be an issue, the main difficulty is when playing BH because these MTTs are packed with calling station and fish.
what was happening is i got myself into lots of spots like this
sonicsco24 Small blind   50.00 50.00 5317.50
day4eire76 Big blind   100.00 150.00 10749.38
  Your hole cards
  • A
  • J
     
fish
Fold        
limper Call   100.00 250.00 4120.00
loose
Fold        
craigcu12 Raise   300.00 550.00 4627.50
sonicsco24 Fold        
day4eire76 Fold        
limper Call   200.00 750.00 3920.00
Flop
   
  • 4
  • 5
  • 10
     
limper Check        
craigcu12 Bet   375.00 1125.00 4252.50
limper
Raise   750.00 1875.00 3170.00
craigcu12 Fold        
limper
Muck        
limper
Win   1500.00   4670.00
limper
Return   375.00 0.00 5045.00
and knowing what limpers are like, the times i wanted calls, they would be more likely to fold and i'm not suprised because there range is huge
fish
Small blind   25.00 25.00 7090.00
limper Big blind   50.00 75.00 4205.00
  Your hole cards
  • 10
  • K
     
loose
Call   50.00 125.00 947.50
craigcu12 Raise   150.00 275.00 5995.00
moonkick1 Fold        
swindonkev Fold        
fish
Fold        
limper Call   100.00 375.00 4105.00
loose
Fold        
Flop
   
  • K
  • J
  • 3
     
limper Check        
craigcu12 Bet   200.00 575.00 5795.00
limper
Fold        
craigcu12 Muck        
craigcu12 Win   375.00   6170.00
craigcu12 Return   200.00 0.00 6370.00

Comments

  • edited February 2015
    Do you want a call with k10? Happy to take it down like that as I would not like a check raise there.

    The two hands shown I think played fine, will always get value from them, play ABC, pick starting hands and I find posistion is key with the limp brigade. Joy of limpers is play face up a lot of the time. Will fold to a high % of c bets, have a lot of rag A hands that we can get max value from.

    Nothing wrong with a limp behind too..... Got a hand like suited connectors etc don't feel pressure to always raise and inflate pot. Joy of limpers is the old limp shove with premiums too so I mix it up.  I for one love them tables, great chance to build a stack and how many times we get a great pot when in the bB and hit our dream flop for free
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