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yeah 10Js is a good multiway hand. but im happie playing it in position in a HU pot here vs MP who has play 4/5 hands so far and only raised 1/5.

raising pre also gives us the initiative in the hand - it gives us more ways to win the pot.

if we limp behind, we probably only feel comfortable putting more money into the pot if we hit a pair / draw, although we'll have to be careful as it'll be multiway (unless we gin the flop of course).

if we iso raise, we can take down the pot preflop if everyone folds. if we get 1 caller, we can cbet good boards and villain can fold - another way of taking the pot.

another advantage to iso raising is if we do hit the flop hard, we have already started building the pot on the earliest of streets.