NL is wierd.

I was watching this hand, and because I am a horrible NL player, I want to ask the forum about it.

UTG has $800
You have $997
Button has $4,200
SB has $1,600
BB has $600.

10/20 blinds-$1,000 max buy-in (5 handed)

Preflop: You get delt T ,5 in the CO.
UTG limps, you limp, Button raises $80 to $100, Sb folds, BB folds, UTG calls, YOU CALL.

wtf?

Flop: ($327) T ,5 ,J
you bet $5oo...

I think I get it, but, again, wtf!

5/10 NL is what i play and we have a name for guys like this: fish. Limping is very agressive and I wouldn't do it but its not totally horrible. Cards like that with the massive implied odds can work out great. But calling a big raise is just dumb.

Limping from the CO with two suited cards due to implied odds and the surprise factor is understandable . The call of the raise is terrible.

he's a very well respected player at the site. He's stuck me for a few hundred on more than one occassion.

No outplay postflop arguement?

I thought it sucked, to be honest, but what do I know?

so it's a 50BB max buying game? if it is that's a really weak structure that doesn't allow for a lot of play.

Yeah, that's an ultra bad play if you don't have a very deep stack. Speculative hands are sooo much harder to play when stack sizes vs. blind sizes almost guarantee an all in flop. Some of your best flops, like a flush draw and bottom pair, are going to leave you shut out when someone moves in first position. If you've both got deep stacks, I don't really hate this play (though I'm not usually good enough to pull it off), but it seems absolutely horrible when you've only got 50xBB

Ice