Let me help you out here.

Seat one started with a pair of nines. He wanted to play the had just so the others would not think he was too tight. How do you all put it? A "Rock".

So he caught three nines and decided to play the hand he didn't really intend to play in the first place.

The reason that there were no check raises is that sometimes folks at 2/4 will just check behind you the whole hand giving you nothing when you have three of a kind.

The straight didn't seem scary to seat number one so he kept betting. At the end, he questioned the villians sanity so just checked out of curiosity and the hope that a bet would come out of him.

The dead nine was a nice distraction, looks like you didn't fall for it.

That's how I read it anyway... [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]