Quote Originally Posted by Warpe
Raise. It comes down to what hands you want to play in a raised pot. KQs is one because you'll often be holding TPGK (more often than anything else) and the last thing you want is Kxo/Qx0 in there catching their two pair on the flop, while hands you are playing strictly for their two pair/straight/flush/boat value are easier to get away from if you don't hit the flop hard.
The games I play are fairly loose passive. Also, people are willing to lose a lot with a split pair of Ks with a bad kicker…in a limped pot. In a case like this I can’t force Kx, Qx out of the pot and I don’t want to. I want them to come along and call down all the way. If they make 2 pair then bully for them but they have the same odds I do. I think it is debatable which is the better play in this case. Raise it up and you make the pots bigger but put the fear of being out kicked into them…it makes it easier for them to fold out their TPBK.

On the other hand, if I limp in then they will happily call all the way with TP. I think the deception here has merit. Enough that I am not willing always raise or always limp. I mix it up.

In the case where enough have already folded then one of you reasons for raising goes away; you already have isolation. Limping is fine here IMO.