utg with 99 or any mid pair for that matter, how do u play this?

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I'm with Matt here. Making it 4x just so you cover the shorties is silly. If you make any raise here, they know you aren't folding to a push from them. It's not like the guy with 3140 chips is going to push trash over your raise to 2400 because he thinks you're going to fold to his raise. Don't worry about the shorties when you raise, at all. Worry about not risking too much because you have to fold to a reraise, as a few people have pointed out, and make a standard raise, either 2.5xBB to 3xBB sounds good to me here.