Here's a hand sent to me by someone who raised 5th because he had the great draw against the made 9. Look at it and estimate what the equities were for the 6 draw against the made 9 here on 5th street.
The upcards are the key to this hand as with so many Razz hands. You have to look not just at your upcards and your opponent's, you have to look at them all. You have to notice when they come out because when those players fold, they will be gone.
If you are playing on a site where they have pot limit Razz or unlimited raising when HU, then you'd expect this to be an ineluctably all-in hand. As you wish, but I don't like putting that much at risk with only a narrow edge, or no edge at all:
Take a second in the heat of insta-raising during play and ask yourself what the chance is you will get a 6 or better 7 than your opponent? See those two 4s that folded? If there were still 8 outs to a 6 in the deck, you know there are now only 6. I also count the "buried dead" and figure 1 of my outs folded by each opponent who called 4th. That's four outs to a 6, seven to a 7 or 6, and an 8 might be no good here because your opponent is still drawing also. This is a coinflip with the 6 draw on the bad side of the coin. If I had this 9 and saw two 4s fold, I might shove it myself if raised into, esp with the added folded 7. Mitigating against that is the dead 2 and how rough the 7 draw is. I'm probably flatting here and waiting to see if he catches 6th, mostly because of the rough 7.
There's a link over at the top left to the Pro Poker Tools Razz simulator. Mess around and see what you have to change to get to the 60/40 this 6 draw assumed he had.
(BTW, this is about the fourth time I've posted one of these. If you are serious about the game, you really have to become intimately acquainted with the simulator.)
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