Online deep stack: how do you handle this common situation?

[cero_z]

Hi everyone,

I've been playing a bit of NL online for a change, and I've wondered about this situation:

Fairly loose game, with several 100XBB stacks. Halfway decent players.

2 limpers, I raise to 5XBB in mid/late position with As9s. Limpers call.

Flop is 9h 7h 2c, checked to me, I bet 2/3 pot, 1 limper calls. Turn is a blank or semi-blank (4s, or maybe the Qs, for example). Limper checks. So say the pot is about 1/4 of our stacks after the flop. I've been called pre-flop and on the flop, so I'm wary, but my hand is vulnerable to overcards and the obvious draws out there, so I want to protect it.

Live, this is an easy pot bet, and then I can read the player if I get raised. But online, I hate to make a bet that is enough to protect my hand, because if I'm raised, I won't know what to do with the last half of my stack. How do you handle this?

I hope using portions of the pot, as opposed to concrete numbers isn't too confusing; I purposely wrote the post that way, because I wonder how the answer changes if you're in the PP 2-4 game, or the Stars 5-10, or the UB 25-50.

All comments appreciated, and please include what game you're thinking of, if applicable. Thanks.