Preflop raising thoughts and concerns

I wanted to talk with some of you about preflop raising in LIMIT O8B.

I know we're all raising with the obvious hands PF like AA23 and hands of the sort i.e, AA2x AA3x AKK2, but recently i questioned a play i made and thought better of it and tried to employ it in this hand.



the game was loose/aggressive as usual, and I found myself with a very loose image at the table holding AA 2 5 sooted. I limped UTG and re-raised when it came back to me. PF ends up getting capped.

I started to think that in a lot of O8B games it becomes correct strategy to limp with the hopes of re-raising with big hands, and also for the fact that a lot of hands that are monster starters just play well multi-way.

So, i've switched to a limp/re-raise with big hands in EP.

Secondly, I've also been playing suited connector hands very aggressivly PF. Hands that aren't two way hands I might add. Specifically hands like AKQJ KQJ10 QQJ10 so on and so forth. Does anyone have anything in their database about playing these hands in this fashion PF?



There's one hand I'd like comments on here, as well.


It's just the flop i'm concerned with in this hand.


I'm button with A 2 4 6 nut spades.

5 players to a flop of

3x 5 [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]Kx

It's bet by the SB, BB raises, all call and it comes back to me and I 3-bet.

Does anyone like a call here and why?



Tex