I play almost exclusively in home games and mostly tournaments. I play in the local casino tournament once or twice a year. Wife was out of town so this was the week to play. Nightly tournament, Buyin is 120, starting stack 18k (15k + early bonus of 3k), with 35 players. It is a rebuy tournament with 15min blinds.
It is early in the tournament so no real reads on the table other then I noticed a few players limping and then calling preflop raises. Blinds are 100/200, I am the dealer with 4 limpers to me and I have 88. My thought is unless I raise big I am going to get at least two callers, so I decide to set mine and limp. the small blind also limps and the big blind raises it to 2200. He gets one caller and action is on me with small blind left to act. So pot is 5400 and it cost me 2000 to call.
1st question - was limping the first time correct?
2nd question - now what should I do?
It is early in the tournament so no real reads on the table other then I noticed a few players limping and then calling preflop raises. Blinds are 100/200, I am the dealer with 4 limpers to me and I have 88. My thought is unless I raise big I am going to get at least two callers, so I decide to set mine and limp. the small blind also limps and the big blind raises it to 2200. He gets one caller and action is on me with small blind left to act. So pot is 5400 and it cost me 2000 to call.
1st question - was limping the first time correct?
2nd question - now what should I do?