Hero ($450) is at a 1/2nl table that's playing way bigger. Some serious gambling going on and a few of us are pretty deep. About half of pots are straddled.

V1 MP ($350)- Late 30's White Guy, friends with a bunch of bigger players in the room but always plays 1/2. Loves to gamble and "inflict max pain". Yes, that's a direct quote from something he said this session.

V2 MP2 ($400)- MABG, loose passive pre, passive post unless he has the goods.

V3 SB ($350)- YBG, loose passive pre calling 50%+ of open raises. Have only seen him go aggro post flop once, and it was with a flopped flush when he was much shorter stacked. Oh yea, that was against me, and I'd flopped a lower flush. Yuck.

OTTH:

Hero is UTG with 99, raises to $10. All three Villains call.

Flop ($40)
865

Checks to Hero who bets $30. All three Villains call.

Turn ($160)
8657

V3 leads for $125 w/ approx $180 behind. Hero moves all-in.

I think my line on all streets was pretty standard, but I'm curious if there are other opinions.

Seems well played throughout, you have blockers to 10 9, so the turn is a no brainer shove

Seems pretty standard for the most part.

At a table that you claim is playing much bigger than a standard 1/2 game, I think a $10 open UTG is too small though. I'd open to $15 or so instead, as 9s isn't a hand I want to play 4-5 ways OOP. If you're worried that a larger open is only going to bloat the pot and won't deter Vs from calling, then I'm not totally opposed to open limping in this specific game. My standard play would be to open to $15-$18 in a game that's playing much bigger than a standard 1-2 game.

If you ran into 9-10 then it's just a cooler. Especially when you hold two of the nines and you have the 9d that would block the combo draw on the flop. The board's way too wet for me to fold here with 2 flush draws on board.

+1. Definitely you need to be raising bigger given V3 description.

Ya, pretty standard I think. Lots of bad spots will happen on the turn if there are multiple callers and an overcard turns. We would probably have to check, and thats a pretty weak line. Wouldnt hate going a bit bigger otf like 35 for this reason but otherwise nh

Standard, but I do agree with bigger pre. Normally I leave pre sizes alone, but from UTG at a table playing deep and with described villains, I definitely go bigger. Max value.

You should adjust your standard raise pre to the table even if you are a reg in the game and people have seen you "always opening to a certain amount" (which FTR I generally agree with). So you should raise a bit bigger pre just to get value from the loose calls.
There is no other way you could improve the way this hand played out.

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