Re: \"When I see someone raise utg, I know he is a losing player\"
There's a little kernel of truth to what he says. In a laggy FR game with a few shortstacks, I think you're better off balancing limp-calls with LRRs than just open-raising as raising non-AA hands will get you in a ton of 3-bet pots where over half of effective stacks are committed, and even when you're not 3-bet, you'll still be playing a lot of large pots OOP. And when you do raise AAxx UTG, people are going to put you on that hand a lot.
However, limp/folding AQQ9 to a button raise is ridiculously weak. If you don't think you can profitably play that hand in that situation, your postflop play's too bad to win no matter what you do preflop. Time to give up and learn how to short-stack.
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