i know its standard but....

[BigBrother]

I like this reasoning. I agree this is a hand you need to raise out of the blind sometimes, and not raise other times.

One factor is that by raising pf you improve your post-flop equity against many hands that will (correctly or incorrectly) fold to agression instead of sucking out. I think this somewhat counters the odds they get from the bloated pot to chase gutshot draws, etc.

Postflop, I think I play the hand same as you did. I hit a similar hand at 3/6 yesterday and took the pot from a fish who had also flopped 2 pair with A-rag.

[dopp16]

I don't think that it is a raise 100 percent of the time....If it was suited then it is an autoraise....although I may check that about 10 percent of the time

[ErrantNight]

i think there must be residual dust from the fracas raised over Jason's HUSH post re: raising KQo from the sb behind a boatload of limpers...