Pre flop raising is counter-productive

[Fozman]

@oldbru

At any table, there are players who routinely call the blinds even with poor cards, hoping for a miracle.
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they will now reconsider even calling the blind in future hands with nothing hands as they fear that big pre-flop raise coming behind them. Really, the only person calling that large pre-flop bet is a person with a good hand, maybe better than yours and you scared off all the feeders.

@WannabeCoder

I was considering just responding to the initial post with “lolwut” and leaving it at that

Yeah… I was thinking the same thing, @WannabeCoder. I’d like to know what tables this person is playing on where the ubiquitous limp bingo crowd would actually fold to a pre-flop raise. I have no doubt that things should work like OP has suggested, but here at Replay, this is not the case (at least at lower stakes). I’ve raised pre-flop at certain tables, but still consistently get 5 or 6 callers and declared a bingo player for breaking up their limp bingo.

So yeah, anyway… lolwut.