99 facing a limp reraise

[Pat Southern]

I didn't have any reads on the table. Because he limped after somebody else had limped I figured he didnt have 10s+, but my friend berated my call and said I would only be a coinflip or dominated, comments?

Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t30 (10 handed) converter (http://www.selachian.com/tools/bisonconverter/hhconverter.cgi)

saw flop|<font color="C00000">saw showdown</font>

SB (t1245)
BB (t840)
UTG (t535)
UTG+1 (t1115)
UTG+2 (t1685)
<font color="C00000">MP1 (t1100)</font>
MP2 (t1240)
MP3 (t1830)
<font color="C00000">Hero (t915)</font>
Button (t2510)

Preflop: Hero is CO with 9/images/graemlins/spade.gif, 9/images/graemlins/diamond.gif.
<font color="666666">1 fold</font>, UTG+1 calls t30, <font color="666666">1 fold</font>, MP1 calls t30, <font color="666666">2 folds</font>, <font color="CC3333">Hero raises to t120</font>, <font color="666666">3 folds</font>, UTG+1 folds, <font color="CC3333">MP1 raises to t1100 (All-In)</font>, Hero...

[MrTop]

Easy decision. Fold.

Why put all your tourney chips at risk with a pair of nines?

[gergery]

I’d have flatcalled preflop to avoid this situation. This early you’ll get a lot of people coming in behind you and can play for set value, and you often get people calling this raise (which as alittle light). Once you decide to raise, you have no reads yet so you’re not sure where you’re at. Now you have to guess. If it was later on you would know whether he was a LAG (so call), or tight (so fold).

But once you’re here, I call. I just don’t think many people would limp with AA/KK/QQ after another limp and I could see 22-88 as easily as TT-JJ. Fold is decent option tho.

--Greg

[Pat Southern]

I flatcall here once in a while too, just felt that I had the best hand here, and with good position I wanted to not just play it for set value. Out of curiosity, what pp are you raising here?

[SossMan]

I like the PF raise and I would probably lay this down. People play big hands strangely...they get scared that nobody will call them if they raise with QQ-AA. I woudn't discount a big hand there. AQ/AJ is also possible.

[gergery]

I’d raise JJ, call with everything lower. My answer is partly based on the fact that I play Party, mostly lower buyin tourneys. So I expect to be called in a couple places with a raise, and since I’ll often have a flop with no set and overcards, its just to easy to make a mistake or guess wrong on the flop. Whereas I’m confident I’ll get paid off with my set, or at minimum, will have better reads later on to be able to figure out how to play 99 better after a couple more orbits.

-Greg