Mid-pocket pair, keeping pot control?

[Keys Myaths]

Do I keep pot control here, and if so, how?

What do we do here, and if we do bet, what's our plan for the turn?

No real reads yet.

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Keys ($10.35)
BB ($6.30)
UTG ($6.57)
MP ($3.07)
CO ($6.99)
Button ($6.30)

Preflop: Keys is SB with 9[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], 9[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img].
UTG calls $0.05, MP calls $0.05, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, Button calls $0.05, <font color="#CC3333">Keys raises to $0.4</font>, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, UTG calls $0.35, MP calls $0.35, Button calls $0.35.

Flop: ($1.65) 3[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], T[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], 7[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(4 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">Keys ???

[Dustangel]

I disagree with preflop raise. If you still decide to raise preflop, please make it at least $0.7.

[Keys Myaths]

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I disagree with preflop raise.

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Preflop raise is unbelievably standard, and not up for debate, unless you have some huge insight that we've never seen before.

KEW--do you agree we're probably ahead here?

[KEW]

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I disagree with preflop raise.

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Preflop raise is unbelievably standard, and not up for debate, unless you have some huge insight that we've never seen before.

KEW--do you agree we're probably ahead here?

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We are in a SA/WB situation with very little chance of improvement...Betting and checking will gain us the same info...Our hand is very marginal so I am not worried about protection...

I do not think a bet is bad...When called what do we do on the turn??? The entire deck is a scare cards...

PF is super standard...

[Keys Myaths]

Fair enough. Thanks.

I'd like to see a case for betting here.

[Entropy4]

Against three opponents on that board, I think checking is best. I don't think betting here accomplishes anything here that checking doesn't, aside from the extremely slim chance that everyone folds.

In these situations, I'm content to just complete in the SB and try and hit a set for cheap. Against that many opponents, 99 is almost never going to hold up. If you do raise, you have to raise much more to get the hand HU, then a cbet on this board will take it down 90% of the time.

[KEW]

Check and evaluate action..If 2 players show interest I am dumping it...Leading into 3 villains is problematic with the FD...Calls could mean a FD,SD or a T you just do not know and we'll be OOP...

[Waingro]

I would bet the flop for value. Pot control doesn´t really work when you are oop and it is multiway. And I wouldn´t exactly wet my pants if I am called. Missed overs, gut-shots, fds, any pair might call so fire away.

[Genz]

betting is spew here. Your opponents easily have 16 combined outs against you (4x3 overcards + 4 flush cards that aren't overcards) and you could already be drawing to 2 outs. this is not wa/wb. Against a field of 3 players you can't play this profitably oop, imo. Raising this preflop is standard, because you want to get it HU and have dead money in the pot. Multiway action is deadly for small PPs, just as it is for AA, KK. I check/fold this all day.

[Genz]

And raise more from oop preflop. You really want to thin out the field.