"Don't go broke playing unraised pots"?

[fooz]

I've heard expert players make that statement:

"Don't go broke playing unraised pots"

What does this mean? Unraised pot (meaning preflop I assume), is likely multiway on the Flop with a small pot. How are people stacking themselves at this point and why is it so bad?

Or maybe the statement refers to going broke over multiple hands...i.e. some kind of serious leak playing unraised pots. What kind of leak?

[Mossberg]

This general advice basically means that you shouldn't get too involved with marginal hands in unraised pots (where there isn't much money in to begin with). Since we can't really put villain on much of a range when it's just limped around preflop, it's easy to go too far with what we think is the best hand. Because of this, I will often play fairly passively in these spots and just try to get to showdown (unless I have a fairly strong hand that I need to protect - or unless villain is a station who will pay off with weak holdings).. Also, I'm often prepared to let go of decent hands when facing pressure due to reverse implied odds. The other problem with these pots is that they are often multiway, and since the 2/3 or 3/4 pot size bets will be so small relative to stack sizes, fishy villains will be calling us light since drawing is so cheap - when the next card falls, we'll have NO idea if it helped villain since his range is so huge.

[True]

it means don't bet/3-bet/5-bet all in with Kq on K57 board

[MyTurn2Raise]

other than the blinds, who plays unraised pots?

[SABR42]

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other than the blinds, who plays unraised pots?

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