Raising pf. Everyone's calling, very few are raising themselves and no one is 3betting wout aa.

Miss flop of course, end up checkfolding a lot. If I cbet I'm either raised or pick up some calling stations that are going to showdown.

Someone reassure me that eventually the pots I win w these pf raises will outweigh all my raise pf fold flops.

Raising is fine of course.
What you might want to do is switch up your raising range.
In loose games, I generally do not raise weak AA, unless there is a specific reason I think I can narrow the field.
If you are going to have a multiway pot, instead of raising full pot, raise 2/3 or 3/4 pot. And do it with 8765, QQ88, JTT9 type hands. people will automatically put you on AA, and will stack off light when you hit since they think you missed.

One other thing, be careful about c-bets. c-betting is fine, but be able to stop and get away from your hands. A leak I have is I'll c-bet, get it heads up to the turn, and keep firing. Before I know it I'm bluffing the river for my stack with bottom pair.

What is the reasoning for this?

Is it because I'm still inflating the pot and can still stack people by river if I hit strong, and also not throw as much away when I have to get away?

Yeah thats pretty much it.
Right now, I play .1/.25 and if I'm on the button with T987 and everyone calls in front, a pot sized raise is going to be to like 1.65. There is nothing raising to 1.65 accomplishes that raising to $1 doesn't.

Basically I want to make a big enough pot preflop, that if someone leads out for pot on the flop, I can come over the top for just about all my stack.

Personally, it kind of helps with my c-bet into a bluff leak I mentioned earlier. I almost rather play a 4-6 way pot for $1 each than a 3-4 way pot for $1.65 each. When it comes out the 3-4 for $1.65 I find myself doing anything I can to try and take down the pot vs 4-6 for $1 where I can play much better and get away from hands.

Raising, due to the nature of what pot limit is, allows you to build the pot. When you raise in position you are forcing other people to put money in in a disadvantaged situation, and when you raise out of position you are protecting hands against people who will be limping around (even if they do anyways). If you are playing against a few guys who call all the time preflop and then shut down if they miss, just keep raising in position and play hands that draw to the nuts. Over the long term the rake will eat them alive and they will be really easy to play against.

ducks08- +1

PhillyDilly- This is me drunk spew city in position

*that is a big leak, don't think it is a good thing to do*

raise strong hands preflop, limp hands that need to improve, dont raise too much, it will be burning money, because a 6 way limped pot is already big enough to get enough money in postflop by just betting 3 streets.

When you have strong hands raise the limps. When you have strong-pretty strong-solid hands raise the limps from position. When you have mediocre hands (bad Axxx ss, bad QQxx, JJxx, TTxx) limp behind. When you're first in and you're playing, raise.

just raise your top 10-15% of hands, and limp bad JJ, QQ and TT and suited aces.

What about utg? A hand like 9tjqds? I wanna get money in the pot, but then again im oop vs 4 people the rest of the hand

raise a tighter range in EP, value bet a ton and thinly. ez game.