redvulture61 said:

Your thinking is outdated strategy that was created in 2009 its very nitty. You nits are the most predictable, unblanced, uncreative and transparent and easy to play against players also univerisally terrible at poker. I play a higher variance hyper Lag style because i am extremely comfortable playing postflop as i derive most of my money from poker from Cash games as my skills prevail a lot quicker than in MTTs. Its 2009 thinking to think you cant 3bet and 4 bet light pre ante, be creative postflop etc its all rubbish. 

 

Go to Cardrunners and watch videos by Chuck Bass to see what this style emcumpases.  Sorry the plug.  And for the record the guy showed 10,7 for the nut straight.

LOL. Your reply is rude and elitist. Don't post a hh and then berate someone who gives honest advice. Go back to 2+2. 

As for the hand, I agree with Benny. I do not think that 96s is strong enough to isolate the UTG limper. First of all, your sizing is way too small. The limper will never fold and it will not discourage calls from players IP. You should be raising bigger with your value hands in order to get value and having varied raise sizings opens you up to be exploited by even the simplest of players. In order to play this hand profitably, we need to end up IP most of the time. I would isolate at least 140 with my entire range to generate more folds. In a $5 (lol at such an amazing player such as yourself playing the micros), players behind are not likely to fold marginal hands so you will usually end up playing a multiway pot OOP with a weak hand.

Not to mention you will get 3b from behind a decent amount and the UTG limper can 3b as well. Trying to steal after an EP limp at a 9h table is just bad. Players are going to wake up with hands frequently enough. You are not going to make strong hands very often postflop and will end up trying to semibluff habitual callers off of overpairs and top pairs. You may think you have enough postflop edge to justify the iso, but you don't. 

Had you been in late position and already recognized that the limper's range is weak even UTG then an isolation raise is fairly standard. You will likely play a pot IP against one or two opponents. The three callers you recieve in the hh likely indicates that your raise will not generate enough folds to make raising 96s profitable. And by the way, I have seen a few of Chuck Bass' videos on cardrunners. He is a great player and is able to profitably play a very wide range of hands because he is much better than you. You don't have the skills that he does so you shouldn't and cannot justify trying to play exactly the same way.