[gergery]

I think you are better off raising that hand, since you have good position, and a strong hand – as long as you are raising enough other hands so you are not giving your hand away. Your hand plays well multiway, but it also plays very well shorthanded.

RawTurkey makes some good points – yes your hand can be more disguised, and you’ll lose less when you miss the flop. But you’ll also make less on the times you hit your hand. And if you are going to win lots when someone else has a weaker flush, then you’ll win a larger amount if more money is in preflop and they are tied to the pot. Sure, you can win lots of money if you have nutlow with a flushdraw and multiple callers. But you can also get busted by the guy who would have folded to your preflop raise but stuck around cause you gave him great preflop odds. And If you make such great decisions postflop, then surely you would want to be making those great postflop decisions when even more money is at stake – presumably that’s why you play the $2k game, so your fantastic decision skills can leverage more $$ than when playing at lower limits.

Really, your arguments are no different than advising someone to limp in late position in holdem with AA – your hand will be disguised for those times you hit a monster set over set or get a monotone flushdraw. But the problem there and here is that this hand is so strong AND has position, that you give up too much when limping in exchange for your opportunity to hit big. In reality, most opponents who are willing to put their money in on the flop as a 90-10 dog will be even more willing to do so when more money is in the pot (and they are unlikely to be around long anyway).

Note; there are always exception and you should always mix up your game so as no to be predictable. But for the not-very-deep Party games, the above is true.

--Greg