Set on the turn facing aggression, NL SNG

Game type: Full table no limit sit and go tournament
Your image: Aggressive
Stage of tourney: Early, all players remain
Avg stack: 1500
Misc notes:
Your hand: 9♥9♦

The Setup: Preflop, UTG limps and you limp along with your pocket nines. The table folds to the BB, who checks. The flop comes bingo:

6♥9♣A♦

The BB checks, Player A checks, and you, having played aggressively so far, bet out 60. The BB folds, and Player A check-raises you to 150 total. You decide to flat call and the turn – T♦ – makes a straight but not much else. Player A leads out for 180, putting over 500 in the middle. What’s your play?

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Pirate21

Well, well, well…seems our agg image has paid off here as V clearly doesn’t believe we have a hand.
There’s a case to be made for flatting here with the thought that V will fire again at the river, but I don’t think that’s gonna be necessary.
I’m raising to 380 here and I think there’s a pretty good chance V shoves with an ace (possibly A-10). I snap call, of course.

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John Kugelman

Raise, pretty sure the dude’s not folding his ace.

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_CityBorn_

i like a call. were repping a weak ace or even 2nd pair with a straight draw at that point. he’ll fire the river again and we raise at that point. if we raise here hes got to think about folding a single pair of aces, even against an agg player. its a limped pot, so i doubt hes got a/9+ which is pretty much the minimum he’d really need to play for stacks. unless hes holding 66 or a/6 which would be very lucky for us. in that case a river raise will probably pay anyway.

of course, AA is always a possibility as people like to limp raise utg with it. but if thats the case, tip your hat and rebuy. i doubt hes getting tricky this early in an mtt limping hands like a/k or a/q.

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_CityBorn_ Reply:
January 6th, 2011 at 8:46 am

meant tip your hat and buy into a different tourney, not rebuy here…but then i saw we have him well covered anyway. in that case, just chat “nh” and make note of his play.

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T Reply:
January 6th, 2011 at 1:32 pm

I agree with you. I flat here as well.
Also, I think AA is very unlikely to check-raise this flop. I’d be more concerned about 87…

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samo

I’d say we are likely facing a big ace, so let’s make it $550 to go.

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duhhhh

Raise, we’re in good shape. Don’t think our opponent has 7-8, 10-10, or A-A. Most likely limped with a marginal Ace UTG so I agree with everyone who says we’re against some sort of Ace.

If we are right there is virtually no river we can lose to. Don’t scare our opponent away.
I say raise 2.5x. Then bet/raise the river for value.

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Jeff

Flat

Consider what he’s witnessing: flat of a CR, then RRing his turn lead? He’s gotta know he’s up against something better than a strong A, even if we’re aggressive.

I think we lose value to single Aces if we bump up the turn. If he has 2pair, it doesn’t matter what we do here, but i’m trying to extract max value with the assumption he only has an Ace.

Call the turn, hope he leads the R and jam then. If he checks the river, i’m betting all the way to value town

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