[MicroBob]

This is mostly what I thought as well.
That this logic just shows a gross misunderstanding of poker.

We had a discussion about this type of thing in the B&M forum a while back too.
I played at a 7-card stud table while waiting for a Hold-em seat to open up (in Tunica) and there was one lady there who was playing JUST for the bad-beat (because on 7-stud it was getting pretty high) and she would berate anyone who raised on any street and ask them "Don't you want to win the jackpot?? I know I do. Guess you don't care about the jackpot." (etc etc etc). Naturally I kept raising when I felt it was appropriate and she was getting pretty fed-up with me...but the feelings were mutual.


It does bring up a semi-interesting point though.
I suspect there actually IS a point where the BBJ is high enough where no raising as a group would be mostly correct.
I suspect the jackpot would have to be about a million-gazillion dollars for this to be the case though and I doubt it's possible to truly figure it out.


As it stands...the jackpot is large enough to be +EV for the $0.50 extra put in each raked-hand...but it's not so much so that you should sacrifice any EV of your regular play in some sort of attempt to hit it.
The chances of still hitting the jackpot don't go down that much when you raise. The chances of you increasing your ability to win money in the actual poker itself go up dramatically with correct raising...and some of the jackpot raisers may cold-call you with their 65s anyway which is even better for you.