[Cosimo]

(semi-hijack)

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The thing is: you can begin to get an inkling that AJo will lose you money raising it UTG after you play 20,000-40,000 hands. Or, you can accept that if many of the Mods and high volume posters are saying the same thing, then there is probably a good reason for it.

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That's great and all, but the advice is mostly useless because it boils down to me having to keep a log of a billion posted situations, reads, and the play for each. In other words, if the only thing a high-volume player says is "raise" (etc) then I haven't learned much.

Why should I raise? Give us the benefit of your experience; why you give the answers you do. And if you say "bet" or "raise," how much?

A lot of times what I get out of posted hands is that I played it wrong, but not the thinking that would lead me to the right way.

Why is AJo unprofitable for a raise UTG? Does it have something to do with what it hits? Who calls? Something else?