pocket nines $10s PP

[purerealm]

This is the 2nd hand. What should I have done different?



***** Hand History for Game 3192393467 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $10 Buy-in + $1 Entry Fee Trny:18235841 Level:1 Blinds(10/15) - Tuesday, December 13, 00:42:41 EDT 2005
Table Table 68144 (Real Money)
Seat 4 is the button
Total number of players : 10
Seat 6: jlroberts ( $800 )
Seat 5: gkaravas ( $785 )
Seat 4: purerealm ( $1095 )
Seat 1: northerlyAA ( $800 )
Seat 3: LaiFry09 ( $770 )
Seat 8: LaOs_ ( $525 )
Seat 2: Young_Gunnna ( $800 )
Seat 10: fredexley ( $800 )
Seat 9: lsucrazy ( $825 )
Seat 7: JZervas ( $800 )
Trny:18235841 Level:1
Blinds(10/15)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to purerealm [ 9h 9s ]
JZervas folds.
LaOs_ calls [15].
lsucrazy raises [95].
fredexley folds.
northerlyAA folds.
Young_Gunnna folds.
LaiFry09 folds.
purerealm calls [95].
gkaravas folds.
jlroberts folds.
LaOs_ calls [80].
** Dealing Flop ** [ 4c, 8s, 2c ]
LaOs_ checks.
lsucrazy bets [175].
purerealm raises [400].
LaOs_ folds.
lsucrazy is all-In [555]
purerealm calls [330].
** Dealing Turn ** [ Jc ]
** Dealing River ** [ As ]
purerealm shows [ 9h, 9s ] a pair of nines.
lsucrazy shows [ Kh, Ad ] a pair of aces.
lsucrazy wins 1770 chips from the main pot with a pair of aces.

[Femto]

Fold preflop.

I'd fold pf, your not getting enough implied odds to hit your set. If I was somehow put in your situation on the flop, I would push and hope he has overs......or a smaller non-set pair.

[Hendricks433]

I dont like the raise to 400 at all. Your committed after that so just Push.

[purerealm]

Forgive me I'm still new to this so I'm not sure why I should fold PF. I think there were only 2 people who called. Doesn't this usually signify that my pocket pair is ahead? Especially with the hands that people call with in the lower tournaments. I was thinking that even if someone had a good hand, my hand would most likely be better.

[pineapple888]

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Forgive me I'm still new to this so I'm not sure why I should fold PF. I think there were only 2 people who called. Doesn't this usually signify that my pocket pair is ahead? Especially with the hands that people call with in the lower tournaments. I was thinking that even if someone had a good hand, my hand would most likely be better.

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You are either slightly ahead or way way way behind preflop. Except in certain special situations, this is a bad equation.

[purerealm]

And if I were to act before the raiser, I still should fold PF?

[downtown]

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And if I were to act before the raiser, I still should fold PF?

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No, call.

[liucipher]

It's fine to limp w/ 99. There's a chance you'll hit your set and someone will stack off to you w/ TPTK or overpair. With a pp as high as 99, there's also the added bonus that there's a good shot your overpair is best on an undercard flop.

But once someone more than minraises, I'd get out of there. It's become too expensive to play for a set. It's also difficult to assume your hand is best on an undercard flop because you could be dealing w/ TT+.