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[QUOTE="fundiver199, post: 5419817, member: 397965"]
In games without antes there is pretty much no reason to limp, if you are first to enter the pot. It can sometimes be ok to limp behind other limpers though, if your hand play well in a multiway pot and a deep stack to pot ratio. The prime example of this is small and medium pairs like 22-88.

In games with antes the situation is a little bit different, because there is that extra dead money or chips to fight for, and you are getting a better price, if you limp. Especially limping from SB can have merit in that situation, because you also have the disadvantage of being out of position against BB.

In tournaments a further reason for limping is, that it can allow you to play more hands with a short stack, because you give your opponents worse risk/reward to jam on you. If you make a standard open with a stack like 12-15 BB, it is very attractive for your opponents to jam on you, because ICM considerations force you to fold a lot.

This mean, that either limping or open jamming can be a better option to simply take that play away from them. They can still jam over a limp, but you lose less, when you fold, and therefore they are getting a worse risk/reward. In this scenario you should also mix in some very strong hands in your limping range, so you are not always limp-folding, when you limp.
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