How Often Ignition Players Limp, by Seat and Stake

Every thread about Ignition says the same thing: the games are full of limpers. We counted. Across 13,000 six-handed ring hands at NL100 and NL200, with every seat’s hole cards visible, here is how often each seat open-limps, how often the blind completes, what the limps contain, and what happens when someone raises them.

Open-limping by seat

When the action is folded to a seat (no limper in front), how often does it limp rather than raise or fold?

• NL200
• NL100

UTG n=5,591

5.2% 7.3%

HJ n=4,435

4.9% 6.9%

CO n=3,325

4.8% 6.6%

BTN n=2,305

4.3% 6.6%

SB (folded to) n=1,298

10.7% 10.4%

0%3.8%7.5%11.3%15%

Two things are not what the forum says. First, the rate is flat across positions: UTG limps as often as the button. A limp on Ignition is a player type, not a position decision. Second, it is low. Outside the blinds the NL200 pool limps one hand in twenty and raises one in four (23.5%). At NL100 it is one in fourteen.

The small blind is different: 10–11% completes when folded to, at both stakes.

Behind a limper: the SB completes, the rest mostly don’t

Seat	NL200, behind 1 limper	NL100, behind 1 limper
HJ	14.1% [10.1–19.3] (n 220)	9.4% [6.6–13.2] (n 299)
CO	8.2% [5.7–11.6] (n 342)	10.3% [7.8–13.6] (n 427)
BTN	6.2% [4.2–9.1] (n 384)	10.8% [8.3–13.8] (n 502)
SB	37.2% [32.3–42.3] (n 358)	37.4% [32.9–42.2] (n 414)
Non-SB pooled	8.1% [6.6–10.0]	9.7% [8.2–11.4]

Behind a limper, non-blind seats over-limp about 8–10% and raise 27%. The small blind completes 37% of the time behind one limper at both stakes, and about the same behind two. Half-price to see a flop is the one offer this pool reliably takes.

How many limpers a hand has

	NL200 6-handed	NL100 6-handed
Hands with no limper before the first raise	86.2%	82.6%
Exactly one	10.2%	12.6%
Two	3.2%	4.0%
Three or more	0.4%	0.8%
Hands that reach the flop with no raise at all	17.7%	15.7%

The multi-limper family pot is close to extinct: fewer than 1 hand in 200 at NL200. But about one hand in six goes to the flop unraised (a limp or an SB complete with nobody isolating), which is the spot the standard charts never cover.

What the limps hold

Because every card is visible, we can say what the limps actually were, not just the ones that showed down. On 9,490 NL200 hands:

UTG n=171

29%

HJ n=198

31%

CO n=162

30%

BTN n=197

10%

0%10%20%30%40%

The most common UTG limp at NL200 is AKo (10 of 171), then KQo and AQo (9 each). Pocket pairs are a quarter of early-position limps. The HJ list is led by AKo (14) and QQ (11). The cutoff’s is AKo (16).

The button is the exception: 10% premiums, and the list is JTo, KJo, 75o, 65o, QTo, 87o. That is the weak limp the forums describe. It lives on the button.

What people raise them to

When one player has limped, the first raise comes in at a median 4 bb at both stakes (interquartile range 3.5–5 bb). From the blinds the BB raises smaller (median 3.5 bb at NL200, 3 bb at NL100); the SB and the non-blind seats use 4 bb. Behind two limpers the median is 5 bb, and non-blind seats at NL100 go to 5.5. Nobody isolates by jamming: 0 of 394 iso-raises at NL200 were all-in.

With no limper, the open is a median 2.5 bb (IQR 2.25–3) at both stakes.

Does the limper call?

On the Ignition hands, a limper facing an isolation raise called 55.7% of the time (298 of 535). For comparison, the same line on a 9-million-hand sample from another site runs 69%. The Ignition limper folds more.

By hand group, from the shipped calibration (NL100 + NL200, 1,627 limper replies): premiums call only 28% of the time (they raise), pairs call 67%, offsuit broadways 78%, offsuit junk 61%. So the limp-caller’s range is medium: pairs and broadways, with the premiums already taken out by the limp-raise.

Is the pool getting tighter?

The traded May sample and our own June–September tables disagree a little: the non-blind open-limp rate is 6.1% [5.5–6.8] in May and 4.2% [3.9–4.6] in June–September at NL200. That could be seasonal, could be a different mix of tables, and could be the pool tightening. We flag it rather than explain it; the quarterly pool report will tell.

How to use this

• Expect a limp about once every 20 hands from any non-blind seat at NL200, once every 14 at NL100. Your iso strategy matters less often than you think and more when it matters.
• Size the iso to 4 bb (5 behind two), because that is what the pool does and what the limp-caller is calibrated to.
• Against the SB completer behind a limper, you are often three-way to the flop with a capped SB and a limper who is half junk, half medium strength. That is the most common unraised-pot structure in the game.
• Give early-position limps credit. Thirty percent premiums is a lot more than most players’ “weak limp” model, and the limp-reraise is real.

Data & method

Dataset

Ignition six-handed ring hand histories, every dealt seat’s cards visible: own exports (June–September 2026) plus a traded May 2026 sample at NL100 and NL200. Hero’s own seat excluded from every population count.

Sample

NL200: 6,755 six-handed hands (2,386 traded May, 4,369 own June–September); NL100: 6,327 six-handed hands. Limp composition from 9,490 NL200 hands.

Period

May – September 2026

What the numbers cannot tell you

• A rate is limps divided by chances where the seat had not yet faced a raise; the blinds’ posts do not count as limps.
• The “premium” share uses the hands as dealt; it is not a showdown sample, so there is no showdown bias.
• Over-limp cells behind two or more limpers have 20–90 chances and are not charted.
• May vs June–September is one month at two stakes against three months of our own tables; the difference may be table mix rather than a trend.

Why every seat's cards are visible

Ignition, Bovada and Bodog export hand histories that reveal every dealt seat's hole cards, including players who folded preflop. Population stats built from them have no showdown bias: a "limping range" here is the hands people actually limped, not only the ones that reached showdown.