[Ghazban]

I understand what you're saying; I just was unsure as to how good a hand I needed to have to play for a raise out of the big blind when I had a good reason to suspect the raiser was raising with a less-than-strong hand. In the event that you do see a flop, you're out of position to the original raiser, which can make things a bit harder as well. In general, I prefer to reraise or fold from any position with almost any hand rather than call but, in the blinds, you have an odd situation where, for the first round, you act last but, for all succeeding rounds, you have to act first. Its not that I have an ego problem with letting people think they can run me over in the blinds; I just am not as comfortable playing from them and I'm trying to develop some general guidelines (that will, of course, be refined with experience).