Quote Originally Posted by LeFou
My impulse is to raise preflop with premium hands, so that the people with crap either fold or lose their money to me. When I do this, everyone folds and I get a big bling for my trouble. Is this wrong?
This is where playing the table or playing the people is more important than how you play the cards. If everyone is folding on your raises, then this should be a good opportunity to steal the blinds and bluff at some pots. Or, maybe everyone is folding because they've sniffed you out that you only raise with premium hands because you don't vary your play enough.

In a general sense, I like to bet or raise with good hands to try to get people to call at the wrong odds and statistically pay me off. And, it's no guarantee I'm going to win, so I don't want to fool around and let someone back in the hand. In my home games, I've won many hands only to hear someone say how they would have made a straight/flush/... had they stayed in.

Good luck.