Live 6/12: Straight Draw on the button

[TheCount212]

Raising the flop is fine, as you're building the pot if you hit your 8 outer and (hopefully) buy a free card. The fact that it's a rainbow board keeps the downside risk of hitting and losing to a minimum, unless of course someone's playing a BDFD, 75s, or, heaven forbid, a 5 comes up and someone holds 87s. So your potential reward seems to outweigh your risk here. You'd be horribly unlucky to hit and lose.

The difficulty comes in checking through the turn, which saves a bet but exposes your draw to villains that are paying attention. But of course if they're not paying attention they'll bet out at the river even if you hit.