[Hoss1193]

I'm a limit player, not NL...but I've played enough NL to know that standards are tighter than for limit. And your raising standards are way too loose even for limit.

You mentioned raising with "suited connectors" without specifying rank. I hope you mean hands like KQs....if you're raising (regardless of whether NLHE or LHE) hands like 65s, then heck yeah, people are going to call you with anything. That's probably an even bigger mistake than raising with "any 2 cards 10 or higher", particularly for NLHE.

I also infer from your post that you're primarily talking about a full-table situation (since you mentioned "5 callers"). I don't want to draw conclusions about where you've learned to play, but frankly, most of what a lot of new players know about poker is what they see on the tube. Keep in mind that TV coverage doesn't show every hand; they edit out the relatively straightforward or insignficant hands which make up 95% of the action. And most of the coverage focuses on final table action, with many of the hands played after the field has been whittled down. At this stage, based on a myriad of factors (the cards themselves not necessarily being the most important), raising KTo in UTG+1 is often the right play...that doesn't mean it's the right play most of the time (it isn't - folding is).

I apologize in advance if this last bit was too presumptuous regarding your poker experience...didn't mean it that way. Just thought it was a point worth making.