First of all, it's nice to know that with 3 or 4 hours of spare time, a high-end SPARC workstation, two buddies correcting my mistakes, and no money on the line, I can make the same decision as Mason at least some of the time.

Keeping in mind that I know nothing about upper middle limit games, isn't a better question to ask: "What better hands might be pushed off by a raise?" (AK, AQ, perhaps?) Or even: "What worse hands than mine would call a raise?" (assuming that he's 2nd to act)

PP