[Jim Morgan]

The turn raise is a good one. Your pot odds make raising marginally profitable. Lets assume that there is a 50-50 chance that somone else has a nut low draw. That assumption gives you 6 outs for nut low. (explanation --- 16 outs for half a pot is like 8 outs for a whole pot 16 outs for a quarter is like 4 outs for a whole. Averaging these yields 6 outs.) You also have 3 outs for high with no low at all. (high clubs). You have 5 low clubs that will also give you half a pot. for another 2.5 outs. There is also some value in catching the 9c. Let's call it 0.5 outs. All this counting of outs shows that you have 12 outs. They will show up as a mix of scoops and splits, but overall, you expect to win 12 pots for every 42 pots. (based on 42 unknown cards) With 3 opponents calling, you GAIN EQUITY on every bet since there are fewer than 48 unknown cards. You can see 8 and you are safe in assuming that the better has 2 straight cards, for a total of 42 'unknonw' cards.

This is not the end of the story. The fear that the better will re-raise and knock out opponents is hardly something to fear. You WANT them out or donating more. Maybe tens and nines will fold. (promoting the 9c to an out) Maybe a bad low draw will fold and now all the 2's and 3's will be live outs for low. Getting even 3 more outs for low here is a lot more important than the fraction of a bet you might lose if the reraise causes one of the limpers to fold.

Lets look at some numbers. With 12 outs and 2 opponents, the 2 extra big bets (due to the reraise) each means you win 48 big bets when you hit your 12 outs and lose 60 big bets when you miss. So, over 42 hands you lose 12 big bets when things go very wrong, but if both fish call, you pick up 72 big bets instead of 48. If losing a fish were a 50-50 propostion, then raising would be a break-even move. However, the stray chances of knocking out the hand that would ultimately suck out on you easily balances this.

By the way, I also like your other plays. Raising on the flop here seems like such a good idea, but it just doesn't seem to work. The fish do protect each other a bit, and in this case, they (for the moment) will manage to take the high by making bad calls when you raise. Nor can you hope to drive out enough of them to make a turn of a 2 or 3 work out for you. For now letting them call and waiting seems far superior.