OK I feel like I should post this here since I still consider myself a beginner. I've noticed on most occasions that I raise preflop with great hole cards like what this site refers to as group 0-2 I tend to lose. Sometimes I was last to act and I could have just called and seen a crappy flop and considered getting rid of the hand without losing what I raised.

I guess what I'm saying is that I should be ready to call any (limit) or most (NL) raises with these hands, but I feel like I shouldn't be the one raising. I know the point of raising is mostly to get people out of the hand (especially preflop) but from my small limit holdem experience, this doesn't make people fold, it just makes me lose more.

So, considering this, should I even be raising preflop? Now I can see a point to this if I was early position as people are more likely to fold when they have to call 2 bets all at once instead of calling once and then calling a raise. But once people have already put something in, calling another bet is almost automatic in limit holdem.

So in summary, is the preflop raise worth it? especially in limit holdem? wouldn't the payoff be better if I:
1. just called preflop
2. fold the crappy flops (except high pocket pairs)
3. If I actually get some cards on the flop, I could get some big bet callers on the turn/river, which would make up for not raising preflop.