Killing some time at work and chipping away slowly at my pending bonus on Stars. Been a while since I played LHE there but seems much different than what I remember.

Poker Stars
Limit Holdem Ring game
Limit: $0.50/$1
6 players


Pre-flop: (6 players) Hero is Button with
UTG raises, UTG+1 3-bets, CO caps, Hero calls, SB calls, BB folds, UTG calls, UTG+1 calls.

Flop: (21SB, 5 players)
SB checks, UTG checks, UTG+1 bets, CO calls, Hero raises, SB calls, UTG folds, UTG+1 3-bets, CO calls, Hero caps, SB calls, UTG+1 calls, CO calls.

Turn: (18.5BB, 4 players)
SB bets, UTG+1 calls, CO calls, Hero calls.

River: (22.5BB, 4 players)
SB checks, UTG+1 checks, CO checks, Hero bets, SB calls, UTG+1 folds, CO calls.

Results:
Final pot: 25.5BB
CO mucks Qc Js
SB mucks 9d Ts

It's all good and I understand where you're coming from and I do appreciate the input as well. I might have come off as a little defensive as well, which I wasn't really trying to be...Just explaining my thought process if some idiot did happen to call with something like an A4 (trying to put almost an entire table on hand is tough ). Against a smaller field I wouldn't think twice about raising. But I wouldn't put it passed one of them to play something with a 4 in their hand. The CO in a eariler hand cold called a PF raise with a 92o.

So while it might (and I do agree) in most cases it's probably a less likely scenario that someone had a 4 I just wasn't going to put any 2 passed someone here. Since people wanted to continue on a ragged board I figured something must have hit at least someone, even if it was bottom pair.

But I can completely understand what you're talking about it your last paragraph.