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[QUOTE="F Paulsson, post: 392486, member: 6979"]
Well, specifically with QQ against someone who has paired a K on the board - this is not a good example of when you want to raise to drive others out (because you are not helped by them folding - in fact, since your only chance of winning is to spike a Q, you want them to stay in - a set of queens is a monster).
 
But consider this scenario:
 
You have AK on a board of J-8-6, and you're second to act in a pot of five people.
 
First player bets - you may want to raise. Clearly, your ace-high are not likely to be the best hand, but here are some hands you'd like to fold:
 
A6/A8 (AJ is not going to fold)
K6/K8 (KJ is not going to fold)
 
... and really any other hand who may hold a trey or an eight, who - if you spike an overcard on the turn, may still outdraw you on the river.
 
This is how you increase your own chances of winning by raising - making hands fold that would otherwise use your outs to make even stronger hands. It has the added benefit of possibly making your hand the strongest on the table right now; the first player in the above example could have been bluffing (not likely, but hey), and all of a sudden, you made the best hand (perhaps the A3) fold!
 
But the pot has to be pretty big for this to be worth it, and certain conditions need to apply. It usually involves freeing up backdoor flushdraws and similar things as well (in the above example, if the flop was two hearts, your K was of hearts, and you made the ace of hearts fold, running hearts will now give you the best hand - not him).
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