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Originally Posted by gobbledygeek
Whether we have a slight equity advantage against this guy or the field preflop / on the flop doesn't make raising / betting an overwhelming necessity thanks to we're only getting in fairly small percentages of stacks on these streets. And now all we've done is built a huge pot OOP to a non-ABC guy and now we're playing for some real money with a really mediocre hand on large streets; from a birds-eye overall point of view it's pretty meh unless we're pretty comfortable with what we're going to do (and I'm assuming OP isn't since he's the one asking the question at this point), imo.
GandobviouslycongratstoOPforshipping14+bb/hroveralargesamplesize,welldoneG
Just because you don't feel comfortable with every possible outcome of the decision tree for raising 99 doesn't mean you aren't comfortable with the vast majority of outcomes from said decision tree. And even if OP doesn't 100% know the right answer, raising and making an educated guess in those unusual spots that arise in said decision tree is still far better than limping 99 to set mine.
The way you think just exudes nittiness. You want to limp/reraise aces and limp/call 99 and other "speculative hands" primarily nutmining. The reason you decide to play hand X a certain strategy is either
A) Because this is the most +EV thing to do
B) Because this strategy means we have simple decision trees and get to play a relaxing low stress game of poker where we can grind out hamburger money
By all accounts you go with B every time
SCongratsforwinning5BB/hrforadecadewithnoimprovementH
