[BarronVangorToth]

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You will be tied into a 5 way pot anyway with odds to call the flop on a gutshot.

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This is like bad deja vu...

And a problem is that by raising you may find not only the blinds going away, but the limpers saying, why bother calling the extra 2 when the cut-off might cap it, so they'll dump their limps and now you're heads-up.

Likely? Maybe, maybe not, but you don't know this is going to be five way. There's a big difference when the raise comes from an early spot and then people are calling two cold vs. limpers now calling an additional 2 after their limp.

Now if the hand were a HIGHER suited connector (like KQs) you'd be correct to raise.

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