That's interesting, and I believe you. But would you raise from the cutoff (or from the hijack [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]) with 88 here in level 1? Is the chance of winning those 25 chips worth more than the implied odds of hitting a flop hard? I guess they might be. And then I guess you can also still hit a flop hard even if you raised. Hm, I might be playing this situation too weakly.