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Originally Posted by answer20
QQ is a raise hand in the SB 'because' you are OOP with a premium hand and you want to thin the herd and build a pot. How did the AQ hand go? You didnt tell us ... Did you have to show?
Bit nitty on my part but this is not exactly right. We want to raise here for value with what is presumably the best hand. It's purely a value play. Thinning the field arguments are not really the reason why we should be raising. I suppose a case could be made that thinning the field gives us a better chance to realize better equity and thus that is, inherently a "value play".
But the reason we are raising here first and foremost is to get value out of hands that aren't as good as ours.