22's - 99 overpair on the button

[SammyKid11]

How do you guys play these medium pockets on the button in situations like this where there's a moderate raise and you flop an overpair?

***** Hand History for Game 2926670092 *****
15/30 TOURNEY TEXAS HOLD'EM GAME TABLE (NL) (TOURNAMENT 16853031) - MON OCT 24 21:26:25 EDT 2005
Table Table 67395 (Real Money) -- Seat 1 is the button
Total number of players : 10
Seat 1: Hero (775)
Seat 2: SeatownTilt (795)
Seat 3: Alvamatrix (785)
Seat 4: bigtrade (870)
Seat 5: GrapeDrink (785)
Seat 6: Dawgugafan (760)
Seat 7: drjuicee (863)
Seat 8: Thecoats (777)
Seat 9: georgem1948 (770)
Seat 10: SleepyEd (820)
SeatownTilt posts small blind (10)
Alvamatrix posts big blind (15)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to dhde1328 [ 9h, 9c ]
bigtrade folds.
GrapeDrink folds.
Dawgugafan folds.
drjuicee folds.
Thecoats raises (55) to 55
georgem1948 folds.
SleepyEd folds.
Hero calls (55)
SeatownTilt folds.
Alvamatrix calls (40)
** Dealing Flop ** : [ 2d, 6s, 5s ]
Alvamatrix checks.
Thecoats bets (175)
Hero???????????????

[SammyKid11]

Bump - this is my first hand post, did I do something wrong? Might be a boring hand, sorry -- I studied up on push/fold strategy but have realized I'm lost a lot in the early-game.

Any help would be appreciated!

[rbear]

i push over the top... that's just me though

[Messy_Jesse]

I push here too, especially after they called the pf raise.

[Scuba Chuck]

I don't often play 9s for overpair value in a raised pot preflop.

[rbear]

man, I need to pay more attention when posting... At this level, I limp 9's preflop and probably fold preflop to this raise. Strategy that has helped me immensely comes from this post...
http://archiveserver.twoplustwo.com/...;o=&fpart=
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usually playing mid pairs for set value

[SammyKid11]

[ QUOTE ]
I don't often play 9s for overpair value in a raised pot preflop.

[/ QUOTE ]

This seems like sage advice, I think I probably should have folded preflop.

However, for the purpose of discussion, what if I'd held TT or JJ? I'm assuming we're probably not folding either of those, are we? So say we're in the same spot, same flop, same flop bet from villain. What then?

[rbear]

go to above link... play 22-JJ for set value this early.. that's it QQ-AA reraise preflop

[SammyKid11]

Yeah, I've read and studied Aleo's guide. Personally, I find it a little bit weak-tight for today's 22's (though it still forms the basis of my early-game strategy). The endgame edge isn't quite as large as it used to be...I don't mind playing somewhat-aggressively with JJ-TT (and have had pretty good success doing so). I'm certainly not in the habit of folding either of them in position to one <4xBB raise.

Does everyone believe JJ-TT should be limped and played for set value, or is the above the opinion of this particular poster?

If you don't mind playing JJ or TT in the spot described above preflop, how are you then playing either JJ or TT ON the flop in the OP?