How to play this?

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Turn: (4.66 BB) 9[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
BB checks, <font color="#CC3333">Hero bets</font>, <font color="#CC3333">BB raises</font>, Hero folds.

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Why raise the flop and then pass up the free card. You can showdown for &lt;= to 1BB and possibly fill up? If you're flop raise got JJ, say, to check the turn that's huge. If Villain has the nine, he made a terrible mistake checking to you.

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This is really bad advice, in my opinion.

If we are raising the flop, it is not for a free card. It is because we are beating second pair and believe that it is particularly likely we have the best hand. The 9 is a good card for us in that it makes it less likely that someone has a 9 (and we've sucked out on bottom two pair). Hence, it is in fact imperative that we bet the turn in order to protect our hand, which is vulnerable to many overcards, and to encourage opponents with live outs against us to fold or pay to draw.

We only have two outs to improve! How could our flop raise possibly be for a free card!

Remember: tend to bet the turn when you have few outs (like here) and to check when you have many outs.