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Donger - Good point.

How to play hands and how well various hands fare depends very much on the type of game you're in and upon your opponents.

I'm naturally approaching questions from a fixed-limit point of view.

The casino games in which I play are such that I'll be delighted to see and play AA99 double suited, and I'll almost certainly see the flop with AA99-rainbow. I might or might not raise before the flop with either hand. (That choice is almost entirely opponent and positional dependent for me).

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