[Ironman]

Baxter,

Your final paragragh gets to the heart of the problem with playing limit O8 vs. pot limit O8 online. The pre flop rasies at 2/4 and 3/6 are generally not enough to make money when you limit the field because the hands that you raise with normally play very well with more players.

....should I really raise with AA23? Well, of course you want to get more money into the pot, but you need to decide if your table will call two bets cold to see a flop.

This is not a problem with pot limit.

Situation 1: muck
Situation 2: raise, you want to get out the middle junk
Situation 3: limp and get aggressive post flop when you hit
Situation 4: play very cautiously unless a nine flops
Situation 5: no different
Situation 6: limp then get aggressive post flop
Situation 7 & 8: We have entire threads dedicated to these situations as they can be very profitable, but very costly. I suggest a search back to about two months ago for the A 4 threads.

Hope that helps a little.

Dave