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Originally Posted by borderline
In a game where stacks are this deep, I would raise preflop here. You have a good hand and if you get 3bet, you're usually not going to be dominated here (assuming they have a standard 3bet range of TT+/AQ+, making you play comfortably with 1 pair type hands, although they could have AJ..). Also, you can call a 3bet quite fine. Also by raising preflop, you merge your raising utg pfr range to not just JJ+/AK/AQs.
Raising here preflop is generally bad idea live I think. I'm confused about what you're suggesting with the 3bet stuff too... you're not suggesting that we bet this utg, and then if we get 3 bet we call are you?
Merging ranges is useless here.