How agressive to get with 2 pair?

[mjkidd]

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MJ...I dont know that I agree with most of what youve said.

Your raise preflop to isolate and to try and create some dead money. SB is still getting bad odds to call with most hands. The will be less willing to repop into 2-3 people.

k9s is a pretty automatic button raise.

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When you raise K9s on the button when it's folded to you, a big part of your value is when the blinds give up without a fight. There's no way you can win this hand without seeing a flop.

I agree that I would usually raise k9s in this spot. I'd probably raise K8s and perhaps K7s. But not raising K9s is just not a big mistake here, and it's not the interesting part of the hand. I think that raising the turn here is a much larger mistake than failing to raise preflop, so we're doing the OP a disservice by just saying "raise preflop" and not discussing what his OP was about.