Why Raise with Suited Connectors? (NLHE)

[jeffnc]

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This makes a certain amount of sense with one stipulation - you're against very bad opponents. You may have the choice of playing a worse scenario for higher stakes, or a better scenario for lower stakes, but they're both still very good because your opponents are very bad, so you'd take the higher stakes.

My advice was in the context of much better play.

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But on the other hand, playing better opponents requires more deception, and that's exactly what raising these gives you. If you NEVER raised suited connectors against really smart opponents, you'd be too easy to read. The better your opposition, the less likely you should be to raise SCs for actual hand strength value and implied odds on hitting a hand, and the more likely you should be to raise them for implied odds on disguising your hand (getting paid on unexpected 2 pair or trips more so than flushes and straights, or getting paid on bluffs).