live 67s Button

[Harv72b]

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The primary reasons for raising (metagame, hand disguising) are pretty much nullified by the general sucktitude of all the people playing.

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Those are not the primary reasons for raising, nor should they ever be. Possibly excluding HU matches.

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I also think that raising pf for value is misguided. I don't have pokerstove, but good god, 67s is a tremendous implied odds hand. Even assuming for the sake of argument that it does in fact have a pf equity edge, it would be so miniscule that this would be a clear-cut situation of forgoing a (very) slightly +ev play now to increase postflop ev.

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Every penny counts. And in this case, bloating the pot preflop is good for your hand, because you're either going to hit a monster or get out of there...if you hit the monster, you want a bigger pot that will tempt your opponents to stay in. Either way, trying to Stove 76s against 8-9 random hands would take my PC forever, but rest assured that your equity advantage is more than miniscule.