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I've been reading through some old posts in this forum and I may dredge up a few interesting ones (or maybe more than that we'll see [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]).

The main contention here as a couple of posters have touched on a bit is that we're dealing with a little ambiguity here. On the one hand, A2 will win more hands than KQ in the long run, at least when played properly, and we can't even assume that. This is due of course to the many times where the opponent doesn't hit his hand and you take it down with your high card.

KQ though will win more money, or at least should, due to the excellent kicker when you do hit, along with its straight potential.

Therefore we're using 2 different definitions of "better" here, and most of us would prefer the KQ since it's chips and not hand winning percentage that we're after.

Getting back to the original point of this thread, it indeed is a good idea to not make a habit of raising with below average hands, even in position. Ideally though I'd put the threshold a bit higher than what is discussed here. You need to have enough strength to take the piggy to market so to speak on the flop to back up the raise, not to mention the prospect of getting re-raised PF, and I'm not at all comfortable doing this with, say, 10 8.