Wiining with good hads is great. Wiining with raised hands are even better. I like to look at my pocket pairs every now and then and find I win more with JJ and TT then I do with AA or KK. (QQ - Well, lets just say I had one really bad hand which put my stats to hell).

To be the first to raise pre-flop shows others you have strength. I like to raise 4xBB+1BB per each limper before me and before you know it, all or all but one fold, and I wtill win the hand 80% of the time.