AcidJoe;163771 wroteThis was saturday playing 1/2 NL at my place. Table is a mix of loose fish and loose aggressive players, with one full time poker pro from Rama playing. Everyone liked to limp into a lot of pots.

I'm on the button with J9 hearts and limp in and we see a flop 8 handed.

$16 in the pot

Flop comes J 9 diamonds and 7 spades. 2 checks then a $7 bet, which got raised to $25. Both these players are loose aggressive players.

Stack sizes are as follows Original better just over $250, raiser just over $200 and me with about $375

What's your move?

$47 in the pot..

Stack to pot ratio is 5 ( 1/2 pot bettor) or 4 (pot sized raiser) plus 2 checkers after you ...

How deep are the 2 guys who checked?

I'm not putting the later position people at high pairs or AK since they are aggressive and didn't raise preflop. Mid to low pairs, High card hands like Q8, QT, AJ, KJ, A9 are possible. I don't think they are pure bluffing since the pot is so multiway. Semi bluffs are a distinct possiblilty on such a draw heavy board.

With top two and LAGS in mid late position and an SPR of 5, I'm fine with comitting to this pot ... I don't know about how deep the EP checkers are but I'm guessing they aren't significant???

2 lines seem likely. Small ball and longball. Do you play better postflop then these guys? If you do then play smallball.

Smallball. Flat call to make use of your great position here. This is dangerous since this is a draw heavy board. If a dangerous card comes on the turn (say 10d) then you get to see what they do.

This line offers the first limper about 3 to 1 to fill his flush/straight draw. It has the disadvantage of not getting more info from the raiser/better.

If the checkers fold and the bettor flat calls then you are raising for value if it's checked around to you on a safe turn.

Longball. If you think they will go broke with top pair, Raise about 75 more. If re-raised call the LAGs. If called push most turns.