Re: What is the standard play with 99 in small blind?
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Folding seems weak. I could raise and force out the BB to get the hand heads up.
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For another viewpoint, in SSHE on p. 66 in the section titled Medium Pairs(99,88,77) it says:
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If someone has raised, you should typically fold unless you are fairly sure several others will enter the pot. You do not want to play shorthanded against a bigger pair.
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The authors seem to suggest that when there is a raise, 99 prefers multiway action, so reraising to eliminate players behind you would not be consistent with that thought.
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