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I would have raised pre flop also with so much posted money in the pot, the possiblity of buying the button and to get this as short handed as possible.

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There was one poster. That's really not that much more than a normal hand. Plus you've got a limper who'll stay in for one more, and the poster who'll throw in one more (since he was loose enough to post in MP1). If you raise, otoh, the pot actually does start looking big to the players behind you, so I think a raise might actually make the CO and Button start thinking about staying in instead of getting out. Even if it buys the button, you're only likely to drive out SB, so you're, at best, only getting it down to 3 opponents, and you've bloated the pot with an easily dominated hand.

Preflop raise = not g00t, IMO.

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you dont think there is any equity edge here considering one of the hands your against is random?

not that im suggesting there is, but i think arguments could be made for a raise or a call.