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So, here is what happened. I 3 bet the turn and when Surf 4 bet I was really sure I was up against the nuts. I planned on donking a rivered boat and folding unimproved. The river was so scary and he slides a bet out in tempo. Now I have all the confirmation that I need and muck 99 face up. I normally don't do this but in this case it felt right for a couple of reasons. First and most importantly was that the players at the table knew we were friends and I didn't want them to think I jammed up the turn and then folded for 1 bet as some sort of collusion to push the EP player off his hand. Secondly, I wanted Surf to know ho badly I owned him. He swears that he was checking behind his JT on a paired river so that he could own me.
Now, here is the funny (not to me but nevertheless funny) part. Surf is a live noobie. I have been leaning on him pretty hard after each session to close up his tellbox and avoid some mistakes. It turns out that he was eating when the initial raise came in and didn't see it. When he put out 2 bets he thought he was open raising from the CO which explains why he can have JT here. He says he would never have played it suited or not against this guys raise and I agree. Anyway, earlier in the week he had done stuff like this and been all embarassed and made a big scene at the table but I explained to him how important it is to avoid stuff like that and not to talk so much at the table. So, basically I got bad beat by my own instruction. The whole hand turns into a beat that was never supposed to happen when I flop a set of 9s against A9 and win a huge pot.
As far as the turn and river play, I think it is correct to 3 bet the turn since I can only get 4 bet by the nuts and I can get away from it on the river. If this was against some other commerce goof then the hand plays a bit differently.
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