[drzen]

Where your thinking seems a little off is that you think it's bad to bet against calling stations. But it's fine if you are ahead of the range of cards they are calling with. You don't just bet to fold others out. You bet when you're winning to maximise your profit. So preflop is okay, flop is okay, and raising the turn would be okay. Yeah, sometimes CO has A7, and sometimes BB calls two cold with his KTo, but mostly they have A4 and QT and you score a nice pot, which you built by making them put money in with worse hands.