99 on the button

shrapnel222

it seems to be happening to me more and more these days, so i thought i'd ask the question.
what do you do when you're on the button in a $.5/1 cash game (no particular reads) with 99 or 1010 and someone in mp raises to 4 and there's one caller before you?
what about AQo?

bops

option 1: call - you have position
option 2: reraise - find out where you stand (better) and you have position
(a weaker A/ smaller PP should fold to your RR)
option 3: fold - you are a tight git

me - option 2 more often than not

shrapnel222

i tend to agree about the reraise with just one raiser but with an extra caller i tend to fold more often (i'm trying to infuse myself with discipline lol) but i still doubt if i'm doing the right thing

robinlacey

i would usually call with the pairs,sometimes raise (probably about 80/20)
AQo is usally a raise or fold,i'd often raise unless the original raiser is tight

folding TT or 99 here is really really bad,and the extra caller is more reason to call,not less

bops

shrapnel222 wrote:

i tend to agree about the reraise with just one raiser but with an extra caller i tend to fold more often (i'm trying to infuse myself with discipline lol) but i still doubt if i'm doing the right thing

TBH it's really down to the table images of the raiser and caller - both hands may often be a fold - but with no reads / other info you need to raise to find out...

...if we're talkin about dicipline - i have no useful comment to add :rolleyes:

valor

folding here with any pair sucks really badly

i will call here more often than not : raise AQo or fold it if the raiser is a nit

Hawk Eye

I would nearly always reraise the three holdings all depends on stacks and how the table is playing and never fold any pocket pair here if stacks are >60 big blinds.

shrapnel222

robinlacey wrote:

i would usually call with the pairs,sometimes raise (probably about 80/20)
AQo is usally a raise or fold,i'd often raise unless the original raiser is tight

folding TT or 99 here is really really bad,and the extra caller is more reason to call,not less

if any face cards come on the flop with 2 callers you've got to assume somebody's hit an overpair- i would've thought the more people in the pot the more dangerous it is- are we not in that case just looking for set value and in that case call with any pair?

robinlacey

mainly set value yeah,(which is reason enough to call) but sometimes they'll check to you and you can take it down,or if the raiser bets and the other guy folds its often worth calling once if there's only one overcard to your pair