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and even when you hit flushdraws or sets there will be lows or lowdraws out as well. this is a good hand but you'll win the min and lose the max out of position.

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This is about equity, check raising, and bad players at $50. Since when is it bad to flop a high equity hand or nut draw? This "win the min, lose the max" is just nonsense when you have people who'll call with rubbish hands and rubbish draws. You want to play big pots against such players, and ideally get all in by the turn. You can't do that unless you raise preflop.

If you're in a PL$400 game with a few decent players then obviously you're correct.