Troubles in early position 25c/50c LHE

[TheCroShow]

I'm having TONS of troubles in early position. It's my biggest leak in my game and talking it over with a friend of mine I am making a lot of errors. I will post a few hands here:

Hmm...so I'm having troubles with the following situations.

Hero is SB with 99....*edit* LHE, $0.25/$0.50

like 6 ppl limp in, do you: a)complete? b)raise? Why do you just call? Why do you raise? I hate getting mid pocket pairs in early position, especially if there are several players involved already.

If you are raising you are merely raising for value, not to eliminate other players. If you are just calling you are hoping to get a miracle set, or an overpair to a board of small cards.

In late position it's INSTA raise for me, but in early position it makes me wanna pee! (to quote a friend)

This hand came up tonight. I will share how the hand went down, how I played it and which option I chose preflop. The table is obviously loose, with players chasing like mad..they love their SOOTED cards.