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If you're asking whether you should be limping or raising with this hand in early position, I like Bob T's resonse the best. Usually your objective with raising with this hand is to try and get out those hands that can hurt it, Ax Kx. And this usually works in tough higher limit games.

It's been my experience and I'm sure most of the posters will agree with me, the lower the limit, the more callers pre-flop regardless of how many raises. In these cases you probably want to see if the flop as cheaply as possible and hope to flop a set or at least an overpair to the board.

As far as your play of the hand, I'm assuming it was capped on the flop and the turn (your post was a little unclear). You flopped a big hand and I'm likely to put a lot of bets in, but if you're opponent keeps raising, you need to back off at some point. Your play was fine.


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