Yes indeed, welcome to the forum! I hope that my advice is considered the "good" variety, I always leave my own play up for criticism and try to justify my logic in not only the topics of others, but my own, as well
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That said, I was in a very similar spot a few days ago, only I had top 2 with a re-draw.
I ended up shoving for the exact reason your post illustrates: I wanted to turn my hand into a bluff and fold out the non-nut hands that beat me. Upon reading your post, I feel better about my decision that night, as you folded your set to severe heat.
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/17...-board-830801/
That said, I will base my opinion on your remaining stack size: You have $140 remaining into a pot of $320 with a set on a board in which a flush draw exists and only 3 to the straight exist. Due to the PFR, the possibility of K9 and 89 are lessened, QQ and AK would likely re-raise the pre-flop action, and in many situations, any set is good enough to take the pot down at this point.
Maybe you would need to think this over more if you were deeper, but as a person who is getting better than 2-to-1, I would insta-ship with any set. Not to mention the outs you have if the board pairs against the straight (of course, those outs help top 2 against you, but it is a Catch-22, since he would have 4 outs against you, but you have 10 outs vs. the straight).
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