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 Originally Posted by koolmoe
This is silly. What happens when you have 92o and you want to pick up the pot? You gonna make a small raise and get 2 or 3 callers?
Raising more when you are likely ahead or even crushing your opponents is always a solid play. BTW, raising a small amount = building a pot since you'll often get more than 1 caller as the pot odds + implied odds should be irresistable to your opponents. Building a pot with a strong hand that you might have trouble getting away from and that plays very poorly OOP is just bad poker.
I don't usually try to pick up pots from the BB with 92o when there have been 3 limpers, but yeah, if the table's loose you might want to make a bigger bet for that.
If you really think that $6 or $7 is going to thin the field that much more than $5, then it's fine, that's just not my experience. Since I read Theory & Practice where Sklansky advocates generally larger raises in late position and smaller ones in early position, I've been raising my normal 4xbb+1bb/limper late and slightly less in EP. I vary based on table texture, but it's been working well and I've avoided a lot of difficult big pot situations oop post-flop. I'll agree to disagree, but I hardly think it's silly.
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