Battle of the Blinds

[Dice Man]

This is one of the weaker areas of the game so I was wondering what everybody else's views on this subject is. Everyone on the table has folded and the blinds are worth stealing but not big enough to even nearly commit anybody. If you're in the small blind, what kinds of hands can you raise with?

My old regime was I would only raise here with hands I would raise utg with, ie premiums AK etc, and I'd limp some big hands. But so often the SB bullies my BB that they can't have decent hands every time. Also whenever I'm the one doing the raising in SB I tend to get pushed abck. IS this because the BB thinks my line of thought is something like this:

"I've got K6o and I have no information about his hand so K6o is ahead of him most of the time, therefore I'll raise."

If I'm thinking this he knows he can push back and I should fold since I've just been presented with the information (his hand "strength") I didn't just have when making my decision. I get the impression sometimes the BB pushes back with any hand when I do this, based on the theory my hand can raise the average hand but can't call a raise.

The problem I have is I can expect fish to call my re-raise on the BB because they're fish and won't really have thought my hand might be strong (it isn't), so I end up folding the raises I make on the SB and folding to raises made by the SB. Not long ago I was one of these fish. I raised on the SB with K6o and they push for about 4x more. I just thought "fuck it" and called and they had AQs and I won, but it wasn't a happy win.

So my questions: I see SBs do this to me all the time so what kind of range can we put them on to be raising with? Q7-AA? Sometimes they'll limp with aces or min-raise and I'm talking about raises that are 3x or 4x, say 3.5x, ones where you can fold crap but semi-decent hands you can call.
What range can I push back with, and this has to be an impressive raise, say 5x or 6x what they stuck in? A7+? I don't like calling here unless I have a mid-pair or suited connectors cos with an ace high you're likely to miss but still be ahead, when they bet again it's hard to call or raise.

[Dice Man]

Anyone gonna reply to this or just gonna stare and point?

[jjh]

It's a bit early to go through your whole post but I think as long as you don't over do it, a big raise with pretty much any hand can 'steal' the blinds if you feel they're worth taking at that point and you're in need of a little boost.

If everyone has folded, then if the BB calls you or raises, then you can be sure they're onto something big!