98 Suited vs. all-ins

[dachord]

Recent trip to Tunica left me thinking a lot about this hand. After it was over, there was a lot of discussion with both pros & cons about everyone's play. Ring game 1-3 NLHE. My stack is about twice the size of anyone else at the table and I'm playing against 6 others; 2 are very passive fishys. The other 4 are insanely LAG. I'm on the BB with 98s. UTG calls, two folds, MP+1 calls, CO raises 10BB (which he does frequently w/any 2 cards), Button calls. I decide to call. UTG now reraises all-in. He's one of the LAG players and his chip stack is second only to mine. Much to my surprise, everyone else calls! It's something like $180 for me to call. UTG had everyone else covered (except me), so now the pot is approx $450. I know my hand is weak, but I called for 2 reasons. First was the obvious pot odds. Second was the range of hands that I put them on. I felt that all of these insanely LAG players had nothing more than high cards - I really felt that all other players were in effect cancelling each other out. So, after thinking for a minute, I decide to gamble and make the call.

The hands were as follows: 99, KQ, KQ, AK. Flop: 9,K,Q rainbow. Turn: 2. River: 7.

UTG took the pot with a set of 9s.

I sat there for a couple of hours cursing myself, but I'm still not sure that this was a horrible play. Maybe a bit on the dumba.ss side, but not entirely idiotic.