Another limp 99, flop midset on drawish multi-way board

Weevil99 · #1 10-27-2007, 07:03 PM

One of my favorite plays is to limp in from SB with a small or medium pair in hopes of flopping a set. The payoffs can be huge.

Prior to this hand, the CO and UTG had been playing at each other regularly. UTG had bluffed an all-in bet on the river a couple of hands prior to this one, and when CO folded, UTG flashed his trash hand.

That brings us to this hand:

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t150 (7 handed) Poker Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: 2+2 Forums)

CO (t3230)
Button (t1395)
Hero (t3225)
BB (t1950)
UTG (t2805)
MP1 (t880)
MP2 (t3970)

Preflop: Hero is SB with 9[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], 9[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img].
UTG calls t150, MP1 calls t150, 1 fold, CO calls t150, 1 fold, Hero completes, BB checks.

Flop: (t750) T[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], 8[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], 9[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] (5 players)
Hero checks, BB checks, UTG bets t600, MP1 folds, CO raises to t1200, Hero raises to t2100, BB folds, UTG calls t1500, CO raises to t3000, Hero raises to t3075, UTG calls t555 (All-In), CO calls t75.

Turn: (t9555) 7[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] (3 players, 1 all-in)

River: (t9555) 3[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] (3 players, 1 all-in)

Final Pot: t9555

I'm new enough at poker to not know where or even if I went wrong. My read on these two was that they were tilted at each other and pretty much ignoring me in the hand. I figured one or the other had a high pair, or maybe a 10 in the hole, and the other was furiously bluffing.

I realize that the 7 on the turn is what saved them, but I'm wondering if any of the experts on here feel like I should have folded somewhere in the middle of the betting on the flop, and if so, why?

(This is my first attempt at posting a hand. Sorry for any mistakes.)