[daveymck]

I am surprised there is so much discussion on this seems a pretty standard raise to me, we are in an ideal position to protect our hand, if we can push out anyone with a pair behind or a baby flush draw whatever then we have improved our chances of winning the pot which is a decent size.

Yes sometimes we are behind to a set or whatever but then we act according ly on later streets as information comes to us , at this point there is no reason or info to make us fold and we want to make it as difficult as possible for those behind us so calling along is not good play.

If we were last to act and facing two or had everyone limp along then we can make more of a judgement call or fold, but here we can potentially use our bad position in our favour by getting the early raise in.