Quote Originally Posted by jackvance
My humble input:
Quote Originally Posted by Anosmic
3) If you DO play suited connectors you want to do it in an unraised pot. Calling a 5xbb raise (#14) with 32s is not recommended. In general you want a lot of limpers in when you're playing these hands and the raise has kicked most of the other players out.
Technically it doesn't really matter if a pot is raised or not. The thing that matters is how many people are in it. Because more people means your input is less, compared to the total pot. And more people means a bigger chance someone hit something nice (top pair, 2 pair, set, trips) that they want to put money on, so that you'll get paid when you hit. This is one of the things I love about 10NL.. people raising their premium hands for 2BB. 4-5 people pot, me with a suited connector or low pp getting a good chance to get paid off when I hit. (because there is atleast one person sitting on a premium hand that he'll want to defend) And at times 3+ people call a 5BB raise before me, I wanna see that flop with 56s.
One of the advantages of only playing these sorts of hands late is that you get to see who has called.
The problem here is that not only have a number folded but also a number behind may fold.

But, yes, at 5 & 10 NL you get a looooot of people calling often. So if you know your table is that loose you can probably call.
Also at this level there's still a good chance someone will pay you off on the flush even though it's bloody obvious. (Especially if his name is Anosmic).

However if the table is more cautious you're hoping to hit a flush which is not very well disguised (plus there is there's always the danger of almost any other flush beating you).

I'm just not convinced that calling a sizeable raise can be justified with these hands. A typical scenario is you get two cards to your straight or flush. If someone's got a good pocket pair or even just two overcards they can bet the flop strongly and you won't have the odds to chase the flush.

If the pot is unraised and there's five or six players seeing the flop and you have a draw then even a pot-sized bet can get the other callers you need to give you the odds. But with a bigger pot there's a strong chance that you'll have to call that bet alone.

Anyway, that's how it seems to me and it's seemed to work that way at the tables I play at.