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Originally Posted by AngryDingo
My thought process on not raising here is that the only draw is 89, opponent is unlikely to have bottom set after raising from the BB, and he probably folds every single hand except TT. Not sure if he continues with the naked open ender here. Again I'm learning Omaha so I could just be wrong and raise pot is the correct play
Generally you just shouldn't slowplay. In order for a slowplay to be the correct decision, a number of criteria must be met.
It must be a small pot. Here it is not. There were a number of limpers, then a raise and two calls pre, followed by a large bet on the flop and an all in call. The pot is already quite big.
Villian must be able to catch up to a worse hand. Here that is not really the case. What can villain improve to? Maybe two pair, but there are not really a lot of worse hands that villain can improve to. Mostly he improves to better hands, or big draws with a lot of equity like wraps. It's not like you have a flush and he can make a straight, or you have a boat and he can make a straight or a flush. You have three of a kind, a strong hand, but a vulnerable one, that can be easily be beaten by a higher three of a kind or a straight.
I agree villain is probably folding most of the time to our flop raise, but better for him to fold then to give him free chances to catch up to us. He's also probably not blasting any marginal hands like an overpair on the turn given that the main pot is now protected.