[rharless]

"But still, I think "drawing" hands should only be started against lots of callers for $2."

Yes -- I don't think I ever said otherwise, and if I did then I take it back. I just meant that if you do the right job of table selection, you don't need to bother counting the number of preflop callers because there will always be enough of them.

I don't really know the answer to your other questions (partly because I don't really understand them, but if I did understand them I don't know I'd have answers [img]/forums/images/icons/smile.gif[/img]). My rule of thumb -- which could be way off -- is that I want to win $10 for every preflop dollar I put in the pot with any type of drawing hand (small pocket pair, flush draw). I have no idea if the 10:1 ratio is ideal but it's just what I have used for a long time.