taipan got the short-handed question answered almost exactly the way i would. iow, yes, if you are folded to on the button that is ESACTLY why you "steal blinds" with KTo...it IS likely to be the best hand out pf. but if there are only 4 ppl left at a final table and i am OTB, i dont know that i am raising if someone in front limps...half the table is still to act pf, and i dont have enough info to raise someone showing interest (the limper UTG). but if folded to, i bust it up almost everytime.

as for SC's vs OSC's...that 2% is a HUGE thing. no, not in the grand scheme, but in "confidence."

we should be looking for 3 factors in a starting hand (which i'm sure you've already heard): 1)TP ability w/ good kicker, 2) suitedness, and 3) connectedness. if your hand has only 1 of the 3 qualities...its trash. and 67o is that holding. however, 67s has both strong connectedness and suitedness, making it much stronger, imo. it simply has MANY more ways to win because it hits more draws...and the flush draw scares the crap out of people because it hammers straights. but, when you are drawing for the straight and flush simultaneously, when you miss the flush and gain the straight, you get paid still, and can be aggressive still because you may have been string along a better flush draw that missed because he only had ONE option with which he could be aggressive...you had two.

that was prolly confusing, but in short...SC's are much more than 2% stronger because of combos, flushes, straights, god-forbid straightflushes. they are stronger because of the IMAGE you are not afraid to represent because they are not one-sided draws...they are often two-sided.