Re: hand protection in practice
This is not a horrible play, but one you should use sparingly against the right set of opponents. Button is a passive player so you are likely behind and drawing to 6 outs (BDSD worth about 0.5 each but discount your pair outs somewhat). The board is not really drawy so your raise is -EV for two other reasons:
1) you encourage weaker Ax and Qx hands to fold that would otherwise pad the pot and pay you off
2) On a board like this, you will rarely get the stronger hands (A3,A4,65) to fold and effectively charge yourself double.
[Against a maniac/laggy player, a c/r on a dry board to protect Ace-high is perfectly fine...then if you get everyone to fold, you c/c to showdown unimproved.]
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