$27 - 99 UTG l4

What do you do with 99 here?
Folding seems too weak, but rarely everybody folds and I am not too excited about calling pushes with 99.

Poker Stars $25 $2 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t50/t100 Blinds - 7 players
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CO: t3250
BTN: t1205
SB: t530
BB: t1155
Hero (UTG): t1415
UTG+1: t4635
MP: t1310

Pre Flop: Hero is UTG with 9 9
Hero ??

I would raise. With like 13.5bb i would just shove.

250 to go for me and see what happens.

Yeah, I std raise this with our stack.

I've been having lots of trouble with these kinds of hands as well. I often find myself with 55-99 UTG or in EP with 6-12BB, 6 or 7 handed... what do you do in these horrible situations? I hate folding these hands, especially at 1.20 stakes. I usually try to understand the type of table I'm at, but I'm just getting used to 6-tabling so I'm usually not too confident about my reads on a given table. What is more standard...folding these hands in EP?

raise, people will shove PPs below this, etc. The problem is getting flat called but sometimes poker games break out

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Another tricky situation:

Villain (no reads), with a similar stack size as yours (assume 14-15BB's) raised 250 from UTG and you hold the same hand on the button. It is folded to you. Do you fold, call or push over?

Originally Posted by GatorJH

Another tricky situation:

Villain (no reads), with a similar stack size as yours (assume 14-15BB's) raised 250 from UTG and you hold the same hand on the button. It is folded to you. Do you fold, call or push over?

This is very read dependent upon UTG:
- If UTG opens with 66+, AT+ and calls a shove with 88+, AQo+, ATs+ then shoving over is -1% EV
- If UTG opens with 55+, ATo+, A8s+, KQs and calls a shove with 66+, AT+ then shoving over is -0.7% EV
- if UTG opens with 33+, A7o+, A4s+, KTs+ and calls a shove with 55+, ATo+, A8s+, KQs then shoving over is +0.3% EV.

Originally Posted by drmcboy

The problem is getting flat called but sometimes poker games break out

What, postflop poker in a turbo?!?!? No way man!

Interesting, with 99 I auto-shove over from the button. That might be a leak of mine.

I often find myself with 55-99 UTG or in EP with 6-12BB, 6 or 7 handed... what do you do in these horrible situations?

55-77 I muck. 88 lately I've been raising and its been working (all folds), but its borderline I think.