in my experience i would say yes. I would prefer to do this with less people behind but his stats are perfect for this play since he is raising 17% preflop the limp is just broadcasting that he's got a marginal hand. I like to have a couple stat up on my hud that help me with this play. 'call open %' and 'limp fold %'. if the call open stat is over 50% dont bother trying, or if the limp fold stat is high then he's open game. ideally CO <20 and LF>80

I like the shove here. The good news in those stats is that he will raise some. So, I think you can expect a fold more often than not. In this spot, I get called often with small pairs, but that is a good situation.

I have stopped making this shove on players with stats like 30/0. They limp their entire range and often have me crushed.

I think this is a spot where meta-game is really important. Your image, your history w villain, the villains potential to spazz out post flop, and as others have mentioned the likelyhood of him limp/calling would all factor in my decision.

I like the shove if you haven't played many pots w the villains and he has a high fold to raise % (which at 50/17 he likely doesn't) and if you haven't been messing with him too much (again at 50/17 you probably were).

I know we are all trained to jam with 18bbs, but personally I think this is a good spot to overlimp and take a flop in position. Here you can have a lot of options postflop while still keeping the ability to find a good spot to jam later.