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I'm getting back into FR. Advice is for FR.
QJs is in a pretty sweet spot on a hand chart. It's 2 broadways, suited, and connected. It has excellent flop potential so turning it into a bluff is almost always -EV. However, Villain needs to be continuing a wide range to your 3-bets to include QJs for value. These together make QJs a great hand to call an opened pot or to open raise.
The pressure of position is always a concern when talking hand strength. If the table is full of fish who don't raise pre-flop, opening QJs from all positions can be profitable. If there are any 3-bets going on, and further aggression, then playing this UTG and UTG+1 is probably not going to be profitable. When the pre-flop action is more aggro, opening with QJs can be trouble from MP1 (UTG+2).
Seeing a flop for more than limps is the pre-flop goal with QJs... from there it's all board texture, table dynamics, number of opponents, IP or OOP, etc.
SB/BB depends a lot. I think QJs has too much equity to do any 3-bet bluffing, and too little equity to re-open the betting. It flops better than most SC and plays well multi-handed. I don't mind calling in a limp-fest from the SB or checking my option from BB any more than I mind calling a few bb to see the flop. I find it's risky to open these spots with multiple opponents. I do think it's probably a good hand to 3-bet/call the BTN if BTN/Blind dynamic is aggro.
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