99 flops set, Big pot against LAG's

[Wyers]

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Raise preflop for value.

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Not necessarily for value. It's great that we hit our set but the reality is that we would like to have fewer opponents competing against our vulnerable nines.

There remain three players to act behind us and a raise would likely fold at least 2 of them, thus increasing the odds that our nines will hold up unimproved.