i honestly believe you're better off just keeping them in your opening range. as the above hand illustrates, if you're limp/raising exclusively your nut range, you are very susceptible to exploitation because perceptive people can
A - call with extremely good implied odds when deep because your range is clearly so strong
B - know to fold say AK or QQ when you limp/raise UTG, thus costing you a shitload of value from the top of your range, which is where i feel most of the money is at micros (3 streets from tptk/overpairs etc).
i don't mind limp/raising if there's a psycho whale behind you. i remember recently playing a dude who would jam 250bb preflop if it hadn't been raised before him, but if it had been raised prior he typically either flatted or just folded. OOP against someone like this i'm limp/calling any hand that i'm willing to stack off with, which obviously includes KK+. however this table dynamic is a super rare exception to the general rule that limp/3betting your nut range is highly exploitable imo.
as for the hand above. yeah i would probably call up to like $4 preflop here because we are 500ish BB deep and his limp/3bet range is super strong. only making it $1.50 here was terrible on his part because he turns his range relatively face up and gives me the opportunity to call with a super wide range based on my implied odds, knowing that he stacks off super deep on a lot of flops.
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