[Mr_J]

Heh, you both started off by saying 'J, I understand..."

"With this in mind do not ease up on your starting hands too much because you still have to showdown a winner."

Being loose isn't a problem I'll have. I'm definately on the tight end of the scale, at around 25% VPIP, so I can afford to loosen up more particuarly on the button.

"High pairs other than aces are just not great hands and I will not play them without something else going for them."

I've been playing them when they have had 2 wheel cards or 2 high cards.

Most of my losses from big pairs seem to have come from aces not containing a wheel card, and most of it from the blinds. I've also done well since I stopped trying to isolate with aces (I think this was the problem). I've actually done very well in general since I stopped all the aggressive isolation/promo-raise moves.