I am wondering if I played this poorly or just got unlucky I didn't get more action. I forget the exact action, but its 2/5 and I have 99 in late position. I think I have 800ish and most of the others are under 100bb.

There is an early position raise to 25, there are a couple callers, I call, and there are 5 or 6 to the flop.

Flop comes 9TT two spades. Early position bets 50, there are two callers, and I decide to raise to 175. Somehow everyone folds.

I know this is vague, but I'm just looking for general feedback in these kinds of spots. I was looking to get called by decent tens, decent flush draws, etc. Did I lose a ton of value by raising here? Should I just call every time? Thanks for any feedback.

I think call is best due to being in position, players making their hand are going to bet the loser for you & will be drawing dead most of the time.

It looks like nobody had a ten, so I doubt you were going to get much action anyways.

The $50 bet (into a ~$150 pot) looks like a blocker bet by a flush draw trying to price themselves in.

Why did you decide to raise here? You don't need to charge the flush draws, you *want* them to hit. If action checked through to you I would have bet, but I don't see the merit in raising.

You raise here because a 10 will usually pay you off. NH, I think raising with that many players in is fine. Definitely working to play of stacks. If they fold the flop they weren't going to give you more money on the turn anyways.

Unless they had a flush draw which hit.

Most of the other players have less than $500, according to OP. If OP flats, the pot will be $350 on the turn—he can still easily play for stacks with that size and GII without pushing out the flush draws.

Why would you not flat and hope for a spade on the turn?

You call to allow other ranges to draw to the second nuts.

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