Raising is SO 2005...

[sirpupnyc]

Is there some new book out that says you should never ever raise with good hands? I've seen more limped top-10 hands in the last week than in the last year. Have they all gotten on the Cloutier/McEvoy bandwagon (Always fear better hands behind you, Never bet to find out if you're good because you should just know) or something?

They limp into pots with about a billion players already in, maybe they call a raise, they check-call the flop, they check-call the turn. Put them on some draw that's not coming in and woop, no, that weak-passive play was AA or KK or AK or something. I'm used to it sometimes (and often they wind up screwing themselves), but lately it seems like nobody gets a premium hand and does anything but play it slow.

Why am I spending so much time sitting here thinking "Well, sure, who'd raise with THAT?"