Is o8 a limpers game?

[Chamonyx]

In a game where you have lots of players liking to see a flop, then I beleive it is ESSENTIAL to raise your good hands pre-flop, especially with position. If you don't tax the limpers with their highly speculative hands, then you are not going to get compensated for those times when they suck out on you.

If your game is loose pre-flop and tight post flop, then again you MUST raise pre-flop as it is the only significant way that you will be able to get any money into it before getting heads up and splitting.

If your game is loose passive post flop, then building the pot pre-flop increases the likelihood that the fish will keep coming along if you hit. (This assumes you are a good enough player to know when to bail).

If you are so worried about bankroll fluctuations, it might be better to drop down a level so that you can have a higher expectation but with a variance that you are comfortable with in absolute $ terms (OK $^2 for any smartasses out there).

If you are still in doubt, then ask yourself why you get so pissed off that the only hands you get on a Kill pot are 569Q etc, and you only get A23Kds on a normal round with one limper and the blinds.

The only argument I can see for dampening down the raising propensity on good hands is if the rest of the table are playing for social pleasure and your running over them is starting to get in the way of their buying more racks.