$10 NL HE 6-max: 99 MP Fold vs BU?

[AcesUTGFold]

Game

Hold'em

Game Format

No Limit

Stakes

$.05/$.10

Table Format

6-max (6 seats)

Currency

$

$0.10 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players

BTN: $11.11 (111.1 bb)
SB: $11.19 (111.9 bb)
BB: $10.92 (109.2 bb)
UTG: $12.00 (120 bb)
Hero (MP): $10.00 (100 bb)
CO: $13.05 (130.5 bb)


Pre Flop: (pot: $0.15) Hero has 9

9

fold, Hero raises to $0.27, fold, BTN raises to $0.90, 2 folds, Hero calls $0.63

Flop: ($1.95, 2 players) T

6

Q

Hero checks, BTN bets $0.61, Hero calls $0.61

Turn: ($3.17, 2 players) 6

Hero checks, BTN bets $2.26, Hero folds

hands:1844
Stats:23/20/10.8
3bet:BTN 15.0

Normally this is a fold preflop.
But against his high 3bet I don't know what to do.
If I follow then he exploits me (probably?).
4bet should not be an option with 99 OOP.
A call against the 3bet is also questionable OOP with 99.
What should I do here please?

Flop: Against the small bet I must probably call?

 

[gustav197poker]

Good defense with pocket 9s. On the flop we're getting an acceptable price but you don't have any relevant blockers for this texture, unless you can get J9s into his 3-bet range, which is not entirely impossible with 15% from Btn.
On the turn if you decided not to block the flop, now it is more difficult for to obtain fold equity when V is IP, unless he thinks that you play a very narrow range and only raise OTT with the nuts, which is very unlikely in this sequence, since he has more 6x from Btn.
In my opinion is a standard play, but probably folding on the flop is the best play vs open BU.
Greetings.

 

[Aballinamion]

$0.10 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players

BTN: $11.11 (111.1 bb)
SB: $11.19 (111.9 bb)
BB: $10.92 (109.2 bb)
UTG: $12.00 (120 bb)
Hero (MP): $10.00 (100 bb)
CO: $13.05 (130.5 bb)


Pre Flop: (pot: $0.15) Hero has 9

9

fold, Hero raises to $0.27, fold, BTN raises to $0.90, 2 folds, Hero calls $0.63

Flop: ($1.95, 2 players) T

6

Q

Hero checks, BTN bets $0.61, Hero calls $0.61

Turn: ($3.17, 2 players) 6

Hero checks, BTN bets $2.26, Hero folds

Hands:1844
Stats:23/20/10.8
3bet:BTN 15.0

Normally this is a fold preflop.
But against his high 3bet I don't know what to do.
If I follow then he exploits me (probably?).
4bet should not be an option with 99 OOP.
A call against the 3bet is also questionable OOP with 99.
What should I do here please?

Flop: Against the small bet I must probably call?

I think it’s hard to fold this hand preflop for villain is 3-betting 15% of times from BU. 4-betting seems an option but personally I don’t like to 4-bet with pocket pairs, only QQ+, even JJ is a weak hand to 4-bet because if villain comes over the top with a 5-bet/push we are in trouble.
I think your preflop and flop action was fine, both. On the turn we must continue paying in hope of floating the opponent on the river, for that we must have a better board configuration that will be good for us. If we got a runner-runner flush, a gutshot, anything that could improve our equity we could be thinking about check-raising turn or check-calling turn with the idea of jamming the river, either if we had hit or not.
Not this doubled 6 on the turn doesn’t improve our hand, and on top of that villain has all the AT, KT, QT, JT, AQ, KQ, QJ and TT+ and we own none of these combos:
Of course that with a 3-bet percentage of 15% players we must expect other hands in his range, but we are beating AJ, KJ, busted Ax for villain has no flush draws.
You played this hand okay, keep grinding and thank you for submitting your hand to analysis.

Best regards;

 

[Station_Master]

I think you played the hand fine.

99 is a clear defend especially against an aggressive 3better. Note that even though you have lots of hand v villain he will have had relatively few 3 bet from BU opportunities so I would look at 3bet IP% in general. Anyway it's a defend whatever whether he is agro or not, 99 is too strong, though I would not 4bet it.

Pretty bad flop but reasonable to call v small bet.
And standard turn fold v double barrel for big size

 

[fundiver199]

You played the hand completely fine. It always sucks to put in money on the early streets as a call, and then have to give up later. But you cant play fundamentally sound poker without doing this. On the flop you cant do much folding getting 4:1, and you beat AK plus all his bluffs. On the turn however you are getting a much worse price, and this is one of the worst hands in your range to continue with. So even though the 6 pairing changed nothing, it is fine to fold now, knowing that sometimes this guy probably did bluff you. But the way to combat that is to get sticky with hands higher in your range like AQ or KQs. With those hand you call turn, and you also call a river jam. You are still only bluff catching, but at least you block some of his fat value like QQ and AA/KK, whereas with 99 you mainly block J9s and K9s, which are potential bluffs.

 

[AcesUTGFold]

Thank you all for the answer it has helped me well. I have no further questions.