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Originally Posted by madh83
What hands would you guys still raise with pre-flop with 10?
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This is highly dependant on circumstances. An advice would be that if it is folded to you, the more players behind you the fewer hands you can raise with. This goes for 6-seat tables too.
Thus the more players at a table, the tighter you must be.
Often there will be a caller or more in front of you. To raise or not in those situations depend on what hand you have and what range of hands you think the callers could have. The tighter the callers are, the better your hand must be for a raise to be correct.
Mark that what makes a hand good is not only how likely it is to win at showdown. Hands with good potential to become monsters such as suited cards, connectors and pairs become better the bigger your stack and the other stacks are, and convential high cards become worse. This is due to something called "implied odds" and "reverse implied odds".
The biggest of the big hands are still good, though, especially in 2-handed pots and when up against small stacks. And the weakest of the speculative hands are still weak especially in the circumstances mentioned in the last sentence.
Edit:
On higher limits some people play too tight. Then it is time to loosen up a little.