Quote Originally Posted by Rondavu
With no read you have to fold the initial raise from shorty. In a tournament I might go all in, but in a cash game it's a bad situation to be in. It's push or fold, and I lean towards fold. Your hand simply isn't strong enough to overcome your positional disadvantage in that betting round.

Let's put it this way. Even pushing here is a gamblers play given the possibility of a three way race holding 99. That's really not what cash game is all about. I think the least desirable decision is the one you made. In a push or fold scenerio, you decided to call. No way. Do you really want to be holding 99 three way when the initial preflop raiser bets right out into you on a board that will be ahead of 9's?

It sounds like you got too emotionally involved after a small stack pounded the pot. That is a great opportunity to race with 99 since you're almost certainly ahead of him. The problem is the original preflop raiser was cockblocking you. Fold it this time.

tell me why calling is such a bad idea here. i dont see anything wrong with it personally. you act behind him and with a 2bb raise, i dont expect him to come over the top like he did. i expect 3 to the flop and if you hit hes paying you off huge cause you got position on him.


i play it the same honestly.