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kriskris911, if I'm at a donkarific table I hardly EVER raise. If there's a lesson I've learned, it's that. A raise is like a siren song to every single moron at the table to call or re-raise to try and suckout on you. The higher the raise, the more tempting it is for them. I just limp like a cripple all day until I hit my hand hard, knowing top pair (or even medium pair) will not be able to lay down. If the table is skilled, you'll get run over and they'll have the sense to fold if you bet or raise once the flop comes, so I have to play "normal" poker in those cases.
With a medium pocket pair, since you were first to act (sounds like you were) with just the button and blinds ahead of you, it's a solid move at a table of non-donks. Sounds to me like the big blind was in love with KQ and wanted to get you out of the way. If he just called you might have came over the top of him, and if not, you'd have position on him. He could only push or fold. Actually, that hand doesn't sound as donktastic as it can get on FTP. The odds were alright for him to do it even if you called. If he had you pegged as a decent player, it's possible you were stealing from the cutoff too (especially since you were chip leader). You were just in a tough spot. I wouldn't pull something like he did without at least a decent ace myself, but others have lower requirements. I would have folded the 99 and waited for a better situation. I think all three of you played the hand OK. If the big blind had 5-2o or something, then I'd be shaking my head... and throwing my computer out the window as he hit the straight on the river.
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