[pokerhooker]

Hi lil feller,

Your list is a good start, and I think the benefits of your reasons to raise outweigh the benefits of limping, therefore I would raise more often, and occasionally limp/limp-reraise for deception.

Out of position, and without carrying the initiative to the flop that a preflop raise would grant you, you're putting a lot of pressure on yourself to hit your hand, as well as hoping your opponents were dealt and decided to get aggressive with dominated hands in the first place.

You don't explicitly mention it, but I believe your whole goal is to exploit the aggressiveness of your opponents and their tendency to want to isolate limpers deemed as weak. That's fine, but I'd still prefer to do that with true monsters.