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The preflop raise is neither terrible nor mandatory in middle position, IMO.

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I disagree. With an opponent that loose, with the chance of having a dominating hand, buying position, forcing out hands like AJ or KQ that might have us in very bad shape, exploiting our big-hand value if the blinds come along, and so on and so forth...

Make not raising here bad in my opinion.

I guess it's kind of close because I'd probably limp KTs, but I'm always raising KQs, AJs, often raising KJo (probably 60% against a loose limper here) and so on.


Edit: I misread the post. MP1 is not the 31 villain. Most everything still applies though. I'm raising this against basically everyone.