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I agree pretty much with all of this. And another dimension that adds to the problem of using this for starting hand selection in a ring game is the type of flop required to get a truly big hand. I'd much prefer to limp UTG with 44 than with AQo, although AQo is ranked pretty high. With 44 I have huge implied odds if I hit my set, although I'm going to lay the hand down immediately on most flops. Suited connectors raise other, similar issues.

For that reason, I think it would be going too far to try to use this kind of thing to provide criteria for starting hands in a cash-game situation. I think there will be too many complications to make it really doable.

I'm really thinking the place it has the most use is in short-stacked tournament contexts.