[DrGonzo]

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People don't reraise nearly often enough in my games to where thats a major concern.

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You could be right about that.

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With full stacks, I will generally see a flop with a pocket pair regardless of OOP or not, because when they make a pot sized reraise its a premium hand more often than not, and I like my implied odds.

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Meh! 5-10 blinds, 1000$ stacks.
You raise to 40$ UTG
Player behind repops to 140$
No good odds to play for trips even if you have a good chance of taking his stack when you hit.



Because of this, I don't like to raise with such a large range UTG against aggressive opponents or against thinking opponents.
On the other hand, and this happens more often for me, I don't like to raise with such a large range against opponents that are rather loose either. You don't have much of a chance to steal the blinds and you end up playing a big pot OOP with a weak hand or a hand such as 22 which would love to see the flop cheap preferrably multiway [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img].

The only time I see merit to having a wide raising range UTG is when you are playing against tight players, who are not particularly aggressive and not very good players.

Since I use data-mining and table selection to try to find the most profitable tables with as many loose/maniac players as possible, the tables are actually very seldom filled with weak-tight players. If you can't steal the blinds and often enough get re-popped and have to drop your hand pre-flop, there seems to be no reason for having a wide range of raising hands UTG.

Not saying that everyone else is wrong here, just trying to figure out if my own thinking is flawed anywhere [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]