If you're in late position, you'd probably raise before the flop with the following hands ("s" is for "suited"):
AA KK QQ JJ
AKs AQs AK KQs
There are forty-eight hands represented here. If you raise with only these hands, your opponents will always know that you're raising for value and to eliminate players. They don't have to worry about your raising primarily to take advantage of your late position. Your hand will always be easy to read. Add to your late position raise list the following hands:
1010 99 88 77
AJs AlOs A9s KJs
You've added another forty hands to your list. Now when you raise, it'll be equally likely that you're raising for value or raising to take advantage of your position. If your opponents catch on, and they eventually will, they'll know that when you raise in late position, it's 50-50 that your raise is for one reason or the other.
If you add another forty hands to your list, odds will be 2 to 1 against your having any of the first list hands when you raise. I recommend this ratio based on my years of experience at the table. This mix of hands will give you the best chance of confusing your opponents, making your hands harder to read and winning you the best possible profit in this situation in the long run.
Your assignment is to decide for yourself what you want those additional forty hands to be. Take the time and effort to write them down before you go to the game. Before you read this chapter, you'd already selected what hands to raise with before the flop in late position. Now you should have quite a few more hands on that list. Here's what I want you to do: in your notebook, keep track of how you do with the new hands the next few times you play in your usual game.
Record what percent of the time these new hands win the pot for you, and modify and adjust your list as you see fit. Every player plays in a different game, and what works well against one type of table lineup may not work as well at another table. Or it may work even better! Save these results in your notes for the game so you can make a comparison when you take another sample some time in the future.
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