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In hand 5 in his book "How good is your Limit Holdem?" Jacobs asks this question:

If u are first in on the button, which hand do u prefer:

1) A8o
2) QJo

This was easy for me, but when I looked at the answer he totally disagreed. I was just about to mail him telling him he did a serious misstake but before that I looked in Pokertracker at my last 170K hands to see just how big misstake it was. To my surprise he was right.

Which hand do you prefer?

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I would prefer Q-Jo much more to A-8 for the reason that when you flop a pair you are more likely to have top pair whereas A-8 is a much more dicey proprosition to play once the flop comes.

I find often when I raise on the button that I am getting called down a lot with any pair hand... therefore in my opinion A-high loses a lot of value. Therefore I would prefer the hand that will flop a top pair good kicker hand that will be paid off often by 2nd pair or 3rd pair.