raise preflop. Mix it up why not? It isnt a standard play, but its the sort of thing i raise and hope to flop something nice.
I cant se how playing the hand in this fashion with that kicker is +ev unless you catch as you do. Think of the preflop hands that beat you. JT QJ KJ.
Over a long period of time this play is going to lose money not make it.
You're making a bad play both positionally and hand wise. Its ugly to say the least. Raising the pot preflop its fair enough, opp may call you down with a PP and think you missed the flop. But J8s as a tp hand from ep in an unraised pot cant be good often once you get called through two streets.
I see what you're saying. At any other site I would most likely fold J8 in that position, but I probably got carried away with the horrible play that I witnessed here so I figured J8 had higher strength. Another thing is that most players raised w/ JT, QJ, KT, A9, etc... the marginals. Since there was no pf raise I assumed I wouldn't run into kicker trouble since it was likely I would not be dominated (it would be more likely I would dominate someone w/ J3, J7, for example).

I agree in the long run playing this hand, especially in this position is -ev, so I'll work on folding it more often. Thanks for the advice