Pocket Nines - What To Do?

[Jaded]

Latter stages of a 5 player $5, I've been fairly tight for most of the tourney, although getting looser now - lost a fair bit of my stack to blinds without playing anything for ages, but hand before this I doubled up with A7 on a dream flop of A72 vs kato, who had 75. Kato is loose, Qstorm's been pretty tight all tourney and hasn't really loosened up at all yet. Hand #397438347 at table: 5 Player $5 NL Started: Sat Aug 19 23:42:29 2006 kato74 is at seat 1 with 4155.00 JadedJ is at seat 4 with 1910.00 qstorm is at seat 5 with 1285.00 qstorm posts the large blind 100.00 JadedJ posts the small blind 50.00 JadedJ: 9c, 9h qstorm: --, -- kato74: --, -- Pre-flop: kato74: Raise 300.00 Call, raise, or ditch?

[GaF]

Re: Pocket Nines - What To Do? I'm ultra ultra (toooooooooo) tight in this situation ........ ditch'em You still have time (20xBB). You're unlikely to improve (and there will probably be overcards on the flop) so a flat call is out of the question ....... The reraise is too much of a gamble (for me) - depends on the range of hands you could put him on, but highly unlikely you are better than a coin flip.......