Sandwich play with 99.

[eugmac]

Is this a good chip sandwich?

Full Tilt Poker Game #4018563032: $5 + $0.50 Sit & Go (30544555), Table 1 - 40/80 - No Limit Hold'em - 21:29:22 ET - 2007/10/30
Seat 1: milwaukeefats (2,180)
Seat 2: Mn_Nick (1,065)
Seat 3: coachwash (1,565)
Seat 4: WhatAhDieDo (1,040)
Seat 5: eugmac (1,335)
Seat 6: RCalaska (2,540)
Seat 7: husker mom (835)
Seat 8: UrCshMyPockt (2,940)
eugmac posts the small blind of 40
RCalaska posts the big blind of 80
The button is in seat #4
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to eugmac [9h 9c]
husker mom folds
UrCshMyPockt raises to 160
milwaukeefats calls 160
Mn_Nick folds
coachwash calls 160
WhatAhDieDo folds
eugmac raises to 1,335, and is all in

[taipan168]

I like it, particularly with all those dead chips in the pot. I'd actually call it a squeeze play rather than a "chip sandwich".

[TLR]

minraise from EP is usually not a good sign, I would call and see a flop

[eugmac]

minraise from EP is usually not a good sign, I would call and see a flop

But donkeys do this with QJ and stuff all the time I find..

[TLR]

minraise + 3 callers I rather take a flop with 99 then push and have 2 callers

[KoRnholio]

I push this here too. The only hands we don't want to see are TT+, and it's very unlikely that either of the 2 callers have this. The original min raisor might, but he could also have a lot of other worse hands.

[mattiesmat]

I push this too.
You have quite a lot of FE and pretty much the odds to flip with the dead money in the pot.

[eugmac]

What's the worst hand you guys would do this with? Would you do it with 88? What about AK? Personally I felt quite good about pushing 99 here, but I'm not sure I would with 88.

As an added bonus here, BU called me with 77 and my hand held up. Swore loudly when a 7 hit, but realized when the chips were shipped my way that that gave me a straight.

[uscheese]

I'd actually rather do this with AK than 99 most of the time. I'm kinda wanting a sandwich now.

[drmcboy]

minraise from EP is usually not a good sign, I would call and see a flop

surely you know we can't call just to flop a set, what flop do you want to 'see'?

[ChrisTheFish]

Yeah i like it, min raise in EP at these stakes is a wide range, sometimes its AA/KK sometimes its JQ or 4's

[Geanosssss]

II'm kinda wanting a sandwich now.

ahaha

[chrisav74]

The only hand you really have to worry about is UTG (unless one of the blinds wakes up with a monster). You aren't going to find many better spots to add 50% to your stack without seeing a flop.

[Stagemn]

Borderline play here. TT maybe. JJ+ I'm gabolin, but 99 with this many cold callers.... hmmmm. And all of them have a larger stack then you.

Ask yourself the following:
1. Is the pre flop raiser an average or simular sstack then yours? NO
2. Did everyone fold to the pre-flop raise thus far? NO
3. Do you have at least a PP or suited connecotr? YES

Not all of these questions were answered to a yes so it's either call/fold here and play for set value only.

[drmcboy]

http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/forum/poker-83.htm

[eugmac]

Borderline play here. TT maybe. JJ+ I'm gabolin, but 99 with this many cold callers.... hmmmm. And all of them have a larger stack then you.

Ask yourself the following:
1. Is the pre flop raiser an average or simular sstack then yours? NO
2. Did everyone fold to the pre-flop raise thus far? NO
3. Do you have at least a PP or suited connecotr? YES

Not all of these questions were answered to a yes so it's either call/fold here and play for set value only.

I'm with drmcboy. This means check/folding basically 85% of flops. And I hate that. And if I just call, occasionally I'm gonna spew money on an all-undercard flop thinking 99 is good in a multiway pot. Basically this isn't the hand I want to play OOP vs 4 opps. And set value is so overrated in SnG's with such shallow stacks IMHO.