Playing Too Tight??

[TheCount212]

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Raise preflop. You should have seen the flop. The only way that you shouldn't see the flop with 99 is if it's three cold to you

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I muck 99 all the time vs solid openraisers.

Text results appended to pokerstove.txt

513,691,200 games 0.031 secs 16,570,683,870 games/sec

Board:
Dead:

equity win tie pots won pots tied
Hand 0: 32.910% 32.71% 00.20% 168005508 1049562.00 { 99 }
Hand 1: 67.090% 66.89% 00.20% 343586568 1049562.00 { TT+, AQs+, AKo }


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Thanks for posting this. I have read a LOT lately on this board about capping 99. It's really not a great hand. I think the OP made a good fold.

Value is a concept that, IMHO, should be balanced with hand-reading and opponent-reading skills, and basic poker skills like knowing when you're beat. Many posts on here lately have advocated throwing away chips in situations where folding is more prudent.

Value is nice in theory, but sometimes in practice we have to just fold.. lest we turn ourselves into donkeys.

I limp 99 PF all the time so I can see a flop cheaply and reassess on the flop. Since I play 3/6 live I'm not usually folding out anyone by raising anyway. Nines are just way, way too susceptible to overcards.. if we were playing NLHE then sure, by all means raise those 99s PF.