Quote Originally Posted by revolvingiris
Quote Originally Posted by Fnord
calling with Suited Connectors is over-rated. I like to raise and re-raise with them.

Doing so without position is at best marginal.
+1 although I am guilty of CC in position at times
Despite what Fnord said (and bearing in mind that Fnord knows quite a bit more about poker than I do), there's nothing wrong with calling in position in a multi-way pot with suited connectors, so long as the other players' stacks are large enough. In this situation, you are basically flush- and straight-mining (and, 2-pair- and trips-mining). You are looking to flop the big hand or the big draw. When you are betting on the come, implied odds are the most important factor, because you are looking to get a big payoff when you hit.

When you raise your suited connectors, you are cutting your implied odds. Which means, you are getting less EV from your hand with respect to situations where you hit the big hand or the big draw. So that means you better be able to make up for it with fold equity on flops you don't hit. Fnord is a very good player and is able to do this. But you need to have confidence in your post-flop play, your table image, and your understanding of how the other players in the hand respond to aggression if you are going to take this line profitably. Whereas, if you simply call, it's less of a concern.