What is the standard play with 99 in small blind?

[Jake (The Snake)]

It depends on the villain, but usually I raise.

I don't want BB coming along unless he's doing it incorrectly so we give him bad odds by reraising preflop. If we just call he's getting tremendous odds and should call with many hands.

Our equity shoots up quite a bit when we are heads up instead of against 2 opponents, and it is much easier to play when only 1 player has position on your instead of 2.

[Vee Quiva]

So how do you play the flop after you reraise?

Let's assume opponent just calls.

Do you continuation bet on any flop?

What about a flop with 3 over cards? Monotone not of your suits?

Do you check raise a decent percentage of times as a bluff, or is that a bad play at this level?

[Jake (The Snake)]

Again, these things really depend on the player and the board texture.

In general though, most of the time I will be continuation betting. Sure, villain is getting 8:1 and should be calling if he knew what we had. But he doesn't know. All he knows is we 3-bet preflop, which could mean AA as far as he is concerned. Thus, our opponent will often make a mistake by folding on the flop when he has good odds to continue.

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Do you continuation bet on any flop?

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Well no. Say the flop is AKQ all one suit and I don't have it. Now check folding against most opponents is perfectly reasonable because we have like no fold equity and are almost defenetely behind.

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Do you check raise a decent percentage of times as a bluff, or is that a bad play at this level?

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Usually not. Most of the time villain is going to have a hand that wants a free card, so I don't want to give it to him. Also, I want him folding incorrectly like I stated above.

[MrEngenic]

If I 3bet from the SB I would never ever check/fold the flop. If it's scary to me it's scary to him so I bet.

[7stud]

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Folding seems weak. I could raise and force out the BB to get the hand heads up.

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For another viewpoint, in SSHE on p. 66 in the section titled Medium Pairs(99,88,77) it says:

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If someone has raised, you should typically fold unless you are fairly sure several others will enter the pot. You do not want to play shorthanded against a bigger pair.

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The authors seem to suggest that when there is a raise, 99 prefers multiway action, so reraising to eliminate players behind you would not be consistent with that thought.