Quote Originally Posted by Bode-ist
Leading out w/ a stong hand like this onto a safe board, villains will often times not give us credit for a real hand and think we are just trying to steal an orphan pot.
99J is a safe board with 5 players in on the flop?

I could your reasoning making sense if I was on the button, but here in the BB with 4 limpers yet to act, it seems to me that betting strong on the flop screams strong hand or reckless bluff.

Are villains on 25NL that skeptical of bets? I seem to have my bets respected a fair bit, but every now and then I'll make a big bluff and get called with third pair or some crap. I have trouble judging people on 25NL because styles of play vary so much more than the 50NL games in my experience....