Re: PF questions
Assuming a typical mix of 2/4 players doesn't really work for this question, as a good deal of where those extra few points on your VPIP come from is based on table conditions and opponents yet to act behind you. In every example you gave, there are times when it is correct to limp, raise, or fold in that position.
Your open-raising standards should expand as you move from MP1 to MP3, irregardless of table conditions/reads. But the environment will always matter to one extent or another (perhaps not so much with a hand like AT or even KJ; if it's folded to you on the button or in the SB, then you should almost always raise no matter who's left to act).
But anyway, there aren't any cut & dried answers to questions like this. If you want to play by the book, then you'll likely be playing at a VPIP in the mid teens as long as you do so. When you open up your starting hand requirements, it should be for specific reasons based on that game, or actually, that hand.
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