Quote Originally Posted by homeboy604
with hands like JJ, !0 10, A Q, A J, KQ do you raise from the sb blind to UTG + 2?
thanks
Blinds and UTG --> UTG +2 are different.

EP if you raise with lets say AQ, you are raising "in the dark" cause you have no info about the hands of the other 7-9 players left to act. AK in a later position will usually just call you and you might end up paying them off on an A high flop.

Blinds is a diffirent story. You have the best position PRE FLOP (later is bad...) you get to act with the most possible information about your opponents hand, you get to act last.


EP I limp AQ (might raise AQs) and AJ, limp TT (recent addition, I was raising) and raise JJ and up.

In the blinds, if limped to me I will definetely raise AQ, AJ (usually suited) JJ TT or even 99. Why think there is AK or sth else better than your AQ out there if no one has raised?

Small pairs limped for set value, so charge them 4BB more to hit.