[elindauer]

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Muck most of those... limp the middle ones, raise the bigger ones. Tough to understand, I know [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

Edit: I'm assuming a 1/2 blind structure, not a 2/3.

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How often do you think A2 is the currently best hand in this situation?

If we assume that it always beats the button, which is probably pretty close then that just leaves the one random hand in the BB. 12/13 * 11/13 are his odds of no ace / no pair, which means you have the best hand 78% of the time.

Even if you give the button some chance of limping a better ace, you still have the best hand the overwhelming majority of the time. To do anything but raise as a default play seems difficult to defend.

Put it another way... if you were the button, or the big blind, what do you want the SB to do with this hand? I want him to fold, and if not then call, and I'd least like him to raise. So there you go.

-Eric