Quote Originally Posted by Lukie
Renton,

hand #2. Do you see why your preflop play can put you in a world of hurt post-flop? I certainly like the agression, but you are in a clear +EV situation in a 5-way limped pot with terrible position, but a well disguised hand. IMO your preflop play turns this hand into what would be a positive expectation into what is almost surely a negative expectation, IMO.

You take this hand and jack it up to 8x into what looks like a very loose, passive, probably terrible field that likes to call too much. You have a hand that will miss 70% of the time, and when you hit, it's going to be pretty clear to the rest of the field. Being OOP with full stacks really makes this a big problem.

Don't turn AQ into 72....

I could be way off base here, but this is similar to bumping it up a second time preflop with a hand like AKo. You aren't really doing it on the strength of your hand, but rather the fact that 1) since you hold an ace and a king (or A and Q in your example), it is less likely that somebody else holds a big hand. And 2) You actually have a hand to fall back on, albeit the post-flop playability of an AK type hand is far worse then a KK/AA type hand, for obvious reasons.
Yeah, this is good advice. Now do you see why I was telling you in your other thread that raising ATo out of the BB after a bunch of limpers is a bad play? Of course AQo is a much better hand, but they play exactly the same the 2/3 of the time you will miss the flop.