Quote Originally Posted by Sax
From the perspective of most opponents, a significant percentage of playable hands contain aces, and with one ace dead, it becomes less likely they have what they consider to be playable hands.

Can you provide some form of an argument for why you think my statement isn't true? "Because I say so," isn't a very good one.
I agree that 1/4 of the aces are in your hand.
My main reason for raising here does not consider that. You have a significant chance of winning the blinds regardless of your hand.
If you are called, you have position, and are forcing your opponent to "catch the flop."
If we win the hand without a showdown, it doesn't matter what we had.

If we are arguing that our hand is strong enough to take against 2 players, then we are not "stealing" with our ace.
If the only consideration we make in whether or not to raise is whether our opponents can call, then should we not raise our premium hands from the button?


I think the biggest factors here are
1) we have position for the rest of the hand
2) we have only 2 players that we need to fold.