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I am in the bb with 8,9 suited and everyone limps in. I checked, but is that the proper move?
 
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I am out of position, I am afraid to get raised and I really want a lot of people in the pot in case I hit the flop with at least a draw right?
 
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Checking is ok pre-flop.
We're trying to flop a monster hand and we wish to see as many cards at no cost to us (or as small as possible).
As everybody limped, we get a free flop, so it would be bad not to take advantage of that.
 
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You can do anything you want. There is no proper move. You could raise and try representing a stronger hand? Or just call and hope for the draw like you said, but then again I don't know how many is "everyone"...
 
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You should raise and analyse the reactions of the other players and act!
 
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I'm also checking in that situations , maybe someone holds big pair and decide to get tricky , if you flopped a straight draw most of the time you're holding best hand.
 
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I agree u did good to check..let the ones with big cards to raise...youre goal its to hit a straight or something and stay hidden so the ones who hit a ace or 2 big pairs or something to be fouled by u and give u all their money
 
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I'm also checking in that situations , maybe someone holds big pair and decide to get tricky , if you flopped a straight draw most of the time you're holding best hand.

Exept when a flash comes around :))...this happens a lot to me
 
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i like to do a small raise here, for two reasons show a little stregnth so if you hit top pair with one of your cards you have a little info to know if your top pair is good, and to build up that pot a little so if u do hit or can now bluff the pot from your raise, you have a decent pot. and doing this all at a small risk and price
 
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i like to do a small raise here, for two reasons show a little stregnth so if you hit top pair with one of your cards you have a little info to know if your top pair is good, and to build up that pot a little so if u do hit or can now bluff the pot from your raise, you have a decent pot. and doing this all at a small risk and price

Would you do a smaller raise in a situation like this rather than make the same raise as when you have a strong hand and what's your reasoning behind that?
 
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You need to just check if EVERYONE has limped. A proper raise here is cost prohibitive and could very well get raised again anyway. A small raise is just throwing chips away. You are around 15% versus the table (16% 6-max, and about 13% vs full table). You are not going to be able to isolate and if you did you're best situation is a flip.

Just be thankful you get to go to the flop and have a shot at a monster.

Now if there is only a couple of limper's, a raise could very well be in order.
 
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i think just checking is a good move here for reason media already stated-if you miss the flop which odds are you will or worst flop middle pair with another player hitting top pair it be be very costly to play hand to river-i dont think raising is smart with every limping there might be one player thats trying to slow play a good hand just waiting for someone to raise so they can re-raise--raising to probe players it costly as well its just another way of bleeding chips
 
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I would check to see flop. After flop new decision based on cards.
It's not worth to risk with these cards pre-flop.
 
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well 89 suited is a dscent hand but i wouldnt ck i would bet 3 or 4 bet
 
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yes becouse you are late position and is risk to raaise......
 
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it depends of the stage of the tournament, if we are talking about tournament...
in early stage that should be a good move, but later, it's tricky to discuss from my point of view
 
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Nothing wrong with checking there dude? Raising would be silly, and you're not going to fold of course.
 
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proper play

According to me proper play depends on proper hand)))
so to play with re-rase is a good position)):icon_sant
 
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just chek you are not in position end someone can always rereise..chek end hope to get monster ,89 is nice hand when is multiple pot
 
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If no1 raised before you, then you raise, u have to thin the field, u cant have 9 people in one hand, that just soory to say, but no1 on that table knows how to play hold`em, u raise, thin the heard, if u get a goodflop, cbet, if not, bet again, put pressure, this guys are fish, they would just fold, if they missed the board.
 
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Just check it.

You have a hand that plays well in a multi-way pot. There is no need to raise to thin the field or anything like that because you're only getting called by hands that currently have you beat, you're in a bad spot of you get 3 bet, and you have to play the hand OOP post flop.

89 is hand that you can easily stack someone off with postflop if you hit strong, but it's also a hand you don't want to be putting too much in preflop with a big PFR and with 9 limpers, you're going to have to put in a big PFR to thin the field. As mentioned above, you're in a bad spot of you get 3bet because now you have to decide if you want to give up the BBs you've already invested or call even more BBs with a speculative hand and play OOP postflop. It's best avoiding these sticky spots by just checking and seeing a free flop. If you hit, you can potentially stack off another player or least win a decent sized pot. If you miss, you're down a forced BB.

The only time I would play 89s aggressively in the BB vs a table of limpers is if I was in a bubble situation with a short 10-15 BB stack. Instead of seeing a flop, I might try and win this PF with a shove as I likely just have enough FE and the size of the pot already represents a huge percentage of my current stack.
 
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